Geometrically nonlinear analysis of thin-walled laminated composite beams
The use of thin-walled composite beams in Engineering has attracted great interest in recent years. Composite beams and other structural elements tend to have thin walls due to the high strength of the material. Other important aspect is that, even without reaching large strains and without overcomi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ufc.br:riufc/61851 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-78251782 http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/61851 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Composite materials Thin-walled beams Three-dimensional frame Finite element Geometric nonlinearity |
| Sumario: | The use of thin-walled composite beams in Engineering has attracted great interest in recent years. Composite beams and other structural elements tend to have thin walls due to the high strength of the material. Other important aspect is that, even without reaching large strains and without overcoming the elastic limit of the material, such as beams present geometric nonlinear behavior due to their high slenderness, leading to large displacements and rotations. In this paper, a three-dimensional frame finite element for geometric nonlinear analysis of thin-walled laminated composite beams is presented. The finite element uses the Total Lagrangian formulation in order to allow the treatment of large displacements, but with moderated rotations. The constitutive matrix of the laminated beams is evaluated through a suitable thin-walled beam theory. In this theory, the effects of the couplings for several layups are considered, but the effects of the warping and transverse shear are neglected. Comparisons with numerical experiments demonstrate the very good accuracy of the proposed finite element. |
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