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1	Large-Amplitude Vibration of Imperfect Rectangular, Circular and Laminated Plate with Viscous Damping Huang, He 18 December 2014 (has links) Large-amplitude vibration of thin plates and shells has been critical design issues for many engineering structures. The increasingly more stringent safety requirements and the discovery of new materials with amazingly superior properties have further focused the attention of research on this area. This thesis deals with the vibration problem of rectangular, circular and angle-ply composite plates. This vibration can be triggered by an initial vibration amplitude, or an initial velocity, or both. Four types of boundary conditions including simply supported and clamped combined with in-plane movable/immovable are considered. To solve the differential equation generated from the vibration problem, Lindstedt's perturbation technique and Runge-Kutta method are applied. In previous works, this problem was solved by Lindstedt's Perturbation Technique. This technique can lead to a quick approximate solution. Yet based on mathematical assumptions, the solution will no longer be accurate for large amplitude vibration, especially when a significant amount of imperfection is considered. Thus Runge-Kutta method is introduced to solve this problem numerically. The comparison between both methods has shown the validity of the Lindstedt's Perturbation Technique is generally within half plate thickness. For a structure with a sufficiently large geometric imperfection, the vibration can be represented as a well-known backbone curve transforming from soften-spring to harden-spring. By parameter variation, the effects of imperfection, damping ratio, boundary conditions, wave numbers, young's modulus and a dozen more related properties are studied. Other interesting research results such as the dynamic failure caused by out-of-bound vibration and the change of vibration mode due to damping are also revealed. Large-amplitude Vibration Damping Backbone Curve Dynamic Failure Plate and Shell
2	Nonlinear Modal Testing and System Modeling Techniques Nagesh, Mahesh 04 October 2021 (has links) No description available. Mechanical Engineering Nonlinear Modal Testing Model Updating Backbone Curve Geometric Nonlinearity Digital Twin
3	Shear Modulus Degradation of Liquefying Sand: Quantification and Modeling Olsen, Peter A. 13 November 2007 (has links) (PDF) A major concern for geotechnical engineers is the ability to predict how a soil will react to large ground motions produced by earthquakes. Of all the different types of soil, liquefiable soils present some of the greatest challenges. The ability to quantify the degradation of a soil's shear modulus as it undergoes liquefaction would help engineers design more reliably and economically. This thesis uses ground motions recorded by an array of downhole accelerometers on Port Island, Japan, during the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, to quantify the shear modulus of sand as it liquefies. It has been shown that the shear modulus of sand decreases significantly as it liquefies, apparently decreasing in proportion to the increasing excess pore water pressure ratio (Ru). When completely liquefied, the shear modulus of sand (Ru = 1.0) for a relative density of 40 to 50% is approximately 15% of the high-strain modulus of the sand in its non-liquefied state, or 1% of its initial low-strain value. Presented in this thesis is an approach to modeling the shear modulus degradation of sand as it liquefies. This approach, called the "degrading shear modulus backbone curve method" reasonably predicts the hysteretic shear stress behavior of the liquefied sand. The shear stresses and ground accelerations computed using this method reasonably matches those recorded at the Port Island Downhole Array (PIDA) site. The degrading shear modulus backbone method is recommended as a possible method for conducting ground response analyses at sites with potentially liquefiable soils. geotechnical engineering geotechnical earthquake earthquake engineering liquefaction liquefying sand shear modulus modeling earthquake modeling shear modulus degradation acceleration time history velocity time history displacement time history ground motions liquefiable soils backbone curve Port Island Downhole Array 1995 Kobe earthquake excess pore pressure ratio response spectrum equivalent linear method nonlinear method stress-strain loop hysteretic loop NERA Civil and Environmental Engineering

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