As the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) increases in aerospace struc- tures it is important to use this material in an efficient manner such that both the weight and cost of the structure are minimized while maintaining its performance. To com- bat undesirable vibrational characteristics of a structure an optimization program was developed which takes advantage of the orthotropic nature of composite materials to maximize eigenfrequency bandgaps. The results from the optimization process were then fabricated and subjected to modal testing. The experiments show that local fiber angle optimization is a valid method for modifying the natural frequencies of a structure with the theoretical results generally predicting the performance of the optimized composite plates.

As the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) increases in aerospace struc- tures it is important to use this material in an efficient manner such that both the weight and cost of the structure are minimized while maintaining its performance. To com- bat undesirable vibrational characteristics of a structure an optimization program was developed which takes advantage of the orthotropic nature of composite materials to maximize eigenfrequency bandgaps. The results from the optimization process were then fabricated and subjected to modal testing. The experiments show that local fiber angle optimization is a valid method for modifying the natural frequencies of a structure with the theoretical results generally predicting the performance of the optimized composite plates.

In this thesis, design and analyses of honeycomb structures are investigated. Primary goal is to develop an equivalent orthotropic material model that is a good substitute for the actual honeycomb core. By replacing the actual honeycomb structure with the orthotropic model, during the finite element analyses, substantial advantages can be obtained with regard to ease of modeling and model modification, solution time and hardware resources . To figure out the best equivalent model among the approximate analytical models that can be found in the literature, a comparison is made. First sandwich beams with four different honeycomb cores are modeled in detail and these are accepted as reference models. Then a set of equivalent models with the same dimensions is generated. The material properties of the equivalent models are taken from different studies performed in the literature. Both models are analyzed under the same loading and the boundary conditions. In finite element analyses, ANSYS finite element program is used. The results are compared to find out the best performing equivalent model. After three major analyses loops, decision on the equivalent model is made. The differences between the total reaction forces calculated by the equivalent model and the actual honeycomb model are all found to be within 10%. The equivalent model gives stress results at the macro-scale, and the local stresses and the strains can not be determined. Therefore it is deemed that for stress analysis, equivalent model can be used during the preliminary design phase. However, the equivalent model can be used reliably for deflection analysis, modal analysis, stiffness determination and aero-elastic analysis.

This thesis involves the derivation of a constitutive model under large deformationtheory using Updated Lagrange method applied on an orthotropic material.Thefollowing aspects are included in this thesis work: introduction, theory, FEM implementation, derivation of constitutive model, calibration, result, discussion, conclusion and the future work. This thesis studies the deformation behavior of wood, which is widely used as aconstruction material, in an advanced and more detailed way by analyzing the mechanical properties of wood from both, the application in laboratory and theoreticalcalculation under large deformation theory. A non-linear elastic constitutive model is proposed, derived and calibrated using asimple inverse analysis procedure. The calibration process was performed to identify8 constitutive parameters A1 − A8 of the constitutive model by performing inverseanalysis against relevant experimental data acquired using the Aramis system. Theresults in the comparison were extracted from the specimen when it is both intangential orientation and radial orientation. The project work will be dedicated to the development of a Finite Element Method(FEM) code implemented in MATLAB scripts which was directly used to study themechanical properties of the orthotropic wood material when hyper-elastic behavioris assumed. The results will contain three parts: 1) study of the influence of pith location onthe load required to deform the specimen specimen, 2) reaction force comparisonof the model results against experimental results, and, 3) comparison of the GreenLagrangian strain pattern over the specimen between the experimental data and themodel’s results.

Bridge decks are commonly subjected to harsh environmental conditions that often lead to serious corrosion problems triggered by blisters under the hot mix asphalt bridge deck surfacing and secretly evolving during weather exposure until damage is often detected too late. Blisters may form under both the waterproofing dense mastic asphalt layer or under the waterproofing membrane which is often applied as additional water protection under the mastic asphalt (MA). One of the main technical issues is the formation of blisters under the membrane and asphalt-covered concrete structures caused by a complex mechanism governed by bottom-up pressure and loss of adhesion. A linear viscoelastic finite-element model was developed to simulate time-dependent blister growth in a dense mastic asphalt layer under uniformly applied pressure with and without temperature and pressure fluctuation. A finite element model was developed using ABAQUS with linear viscoelastic properties and validated with a closed form solution from first-order shear-deformation theory for thick plates. In addition, the blister test was conducted on different samples of MA in the laboratory and digital image correlation measurement technique was used to capture the three-dimensional vertical deflection of the MA over time. It was found that the blister may grow continuously under repeated loading conditions over subsequent days. With respect to blistering under waterproofing membranes, mechanical elastic modeling and experimental investigations were performed for three different types of membranes under in-plane stress state. The orthotropic mechanical behavior of a polymer modified bitumen membrane (PBM) was determined from biaxial test data. Finally, blister tests by applying controlled pressure between orthotropic PBMs and concrete plates were performed for studying the elliptical adhesive blister propagation using digital 3D image correlation. The energy calculated from elliptical blister propagation was found comparable to the adhesive fracture energy from standard peeling tests for similar types of PBMs. This indicates that the peeling test assists to evaluate and rank the adhesive properties of different types of membranes with respect to blister formation at room temperature without conducting time consuming and complicated pressurized blister propagation tests using digital 3D image correlation. / <p>QC 20130625</p>

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Thus, a detailed study of the behavior of cylindrical shells subjected to different loading and support conditions as well as the influence of material characteristics and geometric relations evaluation is justified. In this work the influence of geometry and orthotropy on the nonlinear dynamic behavior of orthotropic simply supported cylindrical shells subjected to both axial and lateral time depending loads is studied. To model the shell, the Donnell nonlinear shallow shell theory, neglecting the effects of shear deformations, is used. It is considered the shell in three different situations: empty, filled with static fluid and subjected to internal flow of incompressible and non-viscous fluid, whose motion is isentropic and irrotational. The radial displacements are described as an expansion with eight degrees of freedom which satisfies the boundary conditions. The Galerkin method is applied to obtain a set of nonlinear equations of motion, which are in turn solved by the Runge-Kutta method. A detailed analysis is performed to study the influence of material orthotropy and geometric relations such as length-radio (L/R) and radio-thickness (R/h) on the natural frequencies, critical loads, critical flow velocities, post-critical paths, frequency-amplitude relations, instability boundaries, bifurcation diagrams and resonance curves. Obtained results display the strong influence of both material orthotropy and geometric relations on the linear and nonlinear behavior of the shells and, depending on these characteristics, the shell can display softening or hardening behavior. / Cascas cilíndricas são estruturas com diversas aplicações em várias áreas da engenharia e têm grande capacidade para resistir a carregamentos axiais e a pressões laterais. Entretanto, são estruturas que podem apresentar um complexo comportamento dinâmico. Assim, um estudo detalhado do comportamento das cascas cilíndricas submetidas a diferentes condições de carregamento bem como a avaliação da influência do material e da geometria se justifica plenamente. Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a influência da ortotropia do material e da geometria no comportamento dinâmico não linear das cascas cilíndricas ortotrópicas simplesmente apoiadas e submetidas a carregamentos axiais e laterais variáveis com o tempo. Para modelar a casca é utilizada a teoria não linear de Donnell para cascas abatidas desprezando-se os efeitos das deformações cisalhantes. Considera-se a casca em três situações distintas: vazia, preenchida com fluido estático e submetida ao escoamento interno de fluido incompressível e não viscoso, cujo movimento é isentrópico e irrotacional. O deslocamento radial da casca é descrito, de maneira geral, por uma expansão com oito graus de liberdade que satisfaz as condições de contorno. O método de Galerkin é utilizado para obter o sistema discreto de equações diferencias não lineares de movimento, que são resolvidas através do método de Runge-Kutta de quarta ordem. Uma análise detalhada é realizada visando observar a influência das características do material e das relações geométricas comprimento-raio (L/R) e raio-espessura (R/h) nas frequências naturais, cargas críticas, velocidades críticas do fluido bem como nos caminhos pós-críticos, relações frequência-amplitude, fronteiras de instabilidade, diagramas de bifurcação e curvas de ressonância das cascas. Os resultados obtidos permitem observar a forte influência que a geometria e as propriedades dos materiais exercem no comportamento linear e não linear das cascas cilíndricas ortotrópicas e, dependendo de certas características, verifica-se que a casca pode ter comportamentos com ganho ou perda de rigidez.

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The objective of this diploma thesis is the stress-strain analysis of the crack terminating at the orthotropic bi-material interface suggested as the plane problem of the linear fracture mechanics. The first part is engaged in basic relations of the linear fracture mechanics. The second part is focused on the singularity exponent evaluation for the crack impinging and generally inclined with respect to the bi-material interface. It follows the determination of the generalized stress intensity factors applying the analytical-numerical approach represented by the finite element analysis. The last part of this work is focused on the testing of algorithms applied to the specific crack and bi-material interface configurations. A conclusion discusses the influence of the bi-material mechanical properties and the angel of the crack inclination to the obtained numerical results.

The presented diploma thesis deals with a problem of a generalized stress intensity factor determination and a consecutive study of stress distribution around the bimaterial notch tip, combining analytical and numerical methods. This task is possible to sectionalize into three parts. The first part is dedicated to the fundamentals of the linear fracture mechanics and the mechanics of composite materials. The second part deals with methods of anisotropic plane elasticity solution. Pursuant to the solution the computational models in the third part are created. The first model makes for determination of a singularity exponent eigenvalue by dint of Lekhnitskii-Eshelby-Stroh formalism. The second model makes for determination of the generalized stress intensity factor using psi-integral method, which is based on the Betti reciprocal theorem. All needed calculation are performed in the software ANSYS 12, Maple 12 and Silverforst FTN95. Results will be compared with the values obtained from a direct method of the generalised stress intensity factor determination.

V současnosti jedna z metod spojování zejména tlustých a vysoce zatížených kompozitních komponent je šroubový spoj, který je možné rozebrat pro případ opravy na rozdíl od lepeného spoje. Kompozitní konstrukce se tradičně dimenzují tak, aby během provozu nedošlo k porušení první vrstvy laminátu, nicméně důležité je taky poznat chování laminátu po porušení první vrstvy. Pro strukturální analýzu nejenom spojů, ale také dalších komponent se používá metoda konečných prvků a protože moderní nelineání řešiče jsou schopné modelovat chování laminátu po porušení první vrstvy, tato schopnost jednoho z nich byla využita v této práci při zkoumaní chování sklolaminátu spojeného s hliníkovou částí šrouby. Konečno-prvkové modely dvou spojů kovové a kompozitní části konstrukce schopné popsat progresivní porušování laminátu byly postaveny s využitím tří různých poruchových kritérií – kritéria maximálního napětí, kritéria Hill a kritéria Tsai-Wu. Problém byl řešen s využitím řešiče Nastran. Křivky síla-posuv, tuhost-posuv a hodnoty zatížení při hraničním posuvu byly porov-nány s výsledky experimentů. Jelikož faktor zbytkové tuhosti ovlivňuje výsledky ana-lýzy progresivního porušování, byly provedeny citlivostní studie zkoumajíci vliv faktoru na přesnost a stabilitu výpočtu. Shoda výpočtu s experimentem v případe prvního šroubového spoje je méně uspokojivá, nicméně shoda v případě druhého spoje, který má zesilující tenkou ocelovou destičku na spodní straně, je podstatně lepší. Vý-borná shoda je zejména při použití interaktivních kritérií Hill a Tsai-Wu.