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Contribution à la caractérisation et à la modélisation du comportement dynamique des structures assemblées / Identification and modeling of jointed structures for dynamic analysisFestjens, Hugo 10 March 2014 (has links)
Les liaisons boulonnées ou rivetées sont, en apparence, l’un des systèmes mécaniques parmi les plus simples qui soient. La fonction première de ces éléments est d’assurer un encastrement rigide entre les composants qu’elles assemblent. Le dimensionnement de ces pièces aux efforts statiques nominaux est un problème assez largement résolu. Néanmoins, ces composants suscitent l’intérêt des ingénieurs et chercheurs depuis plus de 50 ans. Ce paradoxe s’explique en partie par l’amortissement important que ces liaisons produisent au sein des structures. Les efforts subis par les liaisons d’assemblages provoquent le glissement partiel des interfaces de contact. Il résulte de ce glissement, une dissipation par frottement qui est une source majeure d’amortissement des structures aéronautiques. Le niveau vibratoire d’un système est directement lié à son amortissement, c’est à dire à sa capacité à dissiper ou à accumuler de l’énergie. Dans le domaine du transport, entre autres, les vibrations sont néfastes car elles nuisent au confort des usagers ou à l’intégrité des structures. Le bon dimensionnement des assemblages est donc de nature à améliorer le comportement vibratoire des systèmes mécaniques. Actuellement, les outils de calcul numériques permettent d’estimer assez précisément les modes et fréquences propres d’une structure a priori mais l’amortissement, c'est-à-dire le niveau vibratoire, reste une donnée mesurée, a posteriori au travers d’essais couteux. Ceci s’explique par le caractère multi-échelle et la complexité des problèmes de contact. Ainsi, le comportement dynamique des assemblages reste un sujet d’étude très privilégié. Les travaux de cette thèse cherchent à répondre de manière pratique au besoin de produire des modèles réduits de structures assemblées pour la dynamique. / At first sight, riveted and bolted connections seem to be one of the simplest mechanical systems possible. The primary function of these elements is to provide a rigid clamping between the components they assemble. The designing of these parts to nominal static stresses is already quite mastered. However, engineers are still bothered when it comes to modeling these components which have been studied for more than 50 years. This paradox can be explained by the large damping ratios joints generate in structures. The vibration level of a system is directly related to its damping ratio, i.e. its ability to dissipate or store energy. In the field of transport, among others, vibrations are unwanted because they affect the comfort of the users or the integrity of structures. A good designing of jointed structures is likely to improve the vibration behavior of mechanical systems. Nowadays, numerical calculations allow for the computing of the modes but the damping is still measured, a posteriori, through expensive tests. This is explained by the multi-scale nature and the complexity of contact physics. That is why the dynamic behavior of assembled structures remains an area of study for researchers. The work of this thesis aims to provide practical solutions for the identification and the designing of reduced order models for the dynamics of assembled structures.
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Vibration Analysis Of Structures Built Up Of Randomly Inhomogeneous Curved And Straight Beams Using Stochastic Dynamic Stiffness Matrix MethodGupta, Sayan 01 1900 (has links)
Uncertainties in load and system properties play a significant role in reliability analysis of vibrating structural systems. The subject of random vibrations has evolved over the last few decades to deal with uncertainties in external loads. A well developed body of literature now exists which documents the status of this subject. Studies on the influence of system property uncertainties on reliability of vibrating structures is, however, of more recent origin. Currently, the problem of dynamic response characterization of systems with parameter uncertainties has emerged as a subject of intensive research. The motivation for this research activity arises from the need for a more accurate assessment of the safety of important and high cost structures like nuclear plant installations, satellites and long span bridges. The importance of the problem also lies in understanding phenomena like mode localization in nearly periodic structures and deviant system behaviour at high frequencies. It is now well established that these phenomena are strongly influenced by spatial imperfections in the vibrating systems. Design codes, as of now, are unable to systematically address the influence of scatter and uncertainties. Therefore, there is a need to develop robust design algorithms based on the probabilistic description of the uncertainties, leading to safer, better and less over-killed designs.
Analysis of structures with parameter uncertainties is wrought with difficulties, which primarily arise because the response variables are nonlinearly related to the stochastic system parameters; this being true even when structures are idealized to display linear material and deformation characteristics. The problem is further compounded when nonlinear structural behaviour is included in the analysis. The analysis of systems with parameter uncertainties involves modeling of random fields for the system parameters, discretization of these random fields, solutions of stochastic differential and algebraic eigenvalue problems, inversion of random matrices and differential operators, and the characterization of random matrix products. It should be noted that the mathematical nature of many of these problems is substantially different from those which are encountered in the traditional random vibration analysis. The basic problem lies in obtaining the solution of partial differential equations with random coefficients which fluctuate in space. This has necessitated the development of methods and tools to deal with these newer class of problems. An example of this development is the generalization of the finite element methods of structural analysis to encompass problems of stochastic material and geometric characteristics.
The present thesis contributes to the development of methods and tools to deal with structural uncertainties in the analysis of vibrating structures. This study is a part of an ongoing research program in the Department, which is aimed at gaining insights into the behaviour of randomly parametered dynamical systems and to evolve computational methods to assess the reliability of large scale engineering structures. Recent studies conducted in the department in this direction, have resulted in the formulation of the stochastic dynamic stiffness matrix for straight Euler-Bernoulli beam elements and these results have been used to investigate the transient and the harmonic steady state response of simple built-up structures. In the present study, these earlier formulations are extended to derive the stochastic dynamic stiffness matrix for a more general beam element, namely, the curved Timoshenko beam element. Furthermore, the method has also been extended to study the mean and variance of the stationary response of built-up structures when excited by stationary stochastic forces. This thesis is organized into five chapters and four appendices.
The first chapter mainly contains a review of the developments in stochastic finite element method (SFEM). Also presented is a brief overview of the dynamics of curved beams and the essence of the dynamic stiffness matrix method. This discussion also covers issues pertaining to modeling rotary inertia and shear deformations in the study of curved beam dynamics. In the context of SFEM, suitability of different methods for modeling system uncertainties, depending on the type of problem, is discussed. The relative merits of several schemes of discretizing random fields, namely, local averaging, series expansions using orthogonal functions, weighted integral approach and the use of system Green functions, are highlighted. Many of the discretization schemes reported in the literature have been developed in the context of static problems. The advantages of using the dynamic stiffness matrix approach in conjunction with discretization schemes based on frequency dependent shape functions, are discussed. The review identifies the dynamic analysis of structures built-up of randomly parametered curved beams, using dynamic stiffness matrix method, as a problem requiring further research. The review also highlights the need for studies on the treatment of non-Gaussian nature of system parameters within the framework of stochastic finite element analysis and simulation
methods.
The problem of deterministic analysis of curved beam elements is considered first. Chapter 2 reports on the development of the dynamic stiffness matrix for a curved Timoshenko beam element. It is shown that when the beam is uniformly param-etered, the governing field equations can be solved in a closed form. These closed form solutions serve as the basis for the formulation of damping and frequency dependent shape functions which are subsequently employed in the thesis to develop the dynamic stiffness matrix of stochastically inhomogeneous, curved beams. On the other hand, when the beam properties vary spatially, the governing equations have spatially varying coefficients which discount the possibility of closed form solutions. A numerical scheme to deal with this problem is proposed. This consists of converting the governing set of boundary value problems into a larger class of equivalent initial value problems. This set of Initial value problems can be solved using numerical schemes to arrive at the element dynamic stiffness matrix. This algorithm forms the basis for Monte Carlo simulation studies on stochastic beams reported later in this thesis. Numerical results illustrating the formulations developed in this chapter are also presented. A satisfactory agreement of these results has been demonstrated with the corresponding results obtained from independent finite element code using normal mode expansions.
The formulation of the dynamic stiffness matrix for a curved, randomly in-homogeneous, Timoshenko beam element is considered in Chapter 3. The displacement fields are discretized using the frequency dependent shape functions derived in the previous chapter. These shape functions are defined with respect to a damped, uniformly
parametered beam element and hence are deterministic in nature. Lagrange's equations
are used to derive the 6x6 stochastic dynamic stiffness matrix of the beam element. In
this formulation, the system property random fields are implicitly discretized as a set of
damping and frequency dependent Weighted integrals. The results for a straight Timo-
shenko beam are obtained as a special case. Numerical examples on structures made up
of single curved/straight beam elements are presented. These examples also illustrate the characterization of the steady state response when excitations are modeled as stationary random processes. Issues related to ton-Gaussian features of the system in-homogeneities are also discussed. The analytical results are shown to agree satisfactorily with corresponding results from Monte Carlo simulations using 500 samples.
The dynamics of structures built-up of straight and curved random Tim-oshenko beams is studied in Chapter 4. First, the global stochastic dynamic stiffness matrix is assembled. Subsequently, it is inverted for calculating the mean and variance, of the steady state stochastic response of the structure when subjected to stationary random excitations. Neumann's expansion method is adopted for the inversion of the stochastic dynamic stiffness matrix. Questions on the treatment of the beam characteristics as non-Gaussian random fields, are addressed. It is shown that the implementation of Neumann's expansion method and Monte-Carlo simulation method place distinctive demands on strategy of modeling system parameters. The Neumann's expansion method, on one hand, requires the knowledge of higher order spectra of beam properties so that the non-Gaussian features of beam parameters are reflected in the analysis. On the other hand, simulation based methods require the knowledge of the range of the stochastic variations and details of the probability density functions. The expediency of implementing Gaussian closure approximation in evaluating contributions from higher order terms in the Neumann expansion is discussed. Illustrative numerical examples comparing analytical and Monte-Carlo simulations are presented and the analytical solutions are found to agree favourably with the simulation results. This agreement lends credence to the various approximations involved in discretizing the random fields and inverting the global dynamic stiffness matrix. A few pointers as to how the methods developed in the thesis can be used in assessing the reliability of these structures are also given.
A brief summary of contributions made in the thesis together with a few suggestions for further research are presented in Chapter 5.
Appendix A describes the models of non-Gaussian random fields employed in the numerical examples considered in this thesis. Detailed expressions for the elements of the covariance matrix of the weighted integrals for the numerical example considered in Chapter 5, are presented in Appendix B; A copy of the paper, which has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of IUTAM symposium on 'Nonlinearity and Stochasticity in Structural Mechanics' has been included as Appendix C.
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