Nonlinear Buckling and Postbuckling of Shallow Arches With Vertical Elastic Supports

dc.citation.articleNumber061001
dc.citation.issueNumber6
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Applied Mechanics
dc.citation.volumeNumber86
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Yang
dc.contributor.authorYi, Zhuangpeng
dc.contributor.authorStanciulescu, Ilinca
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-13T15:19:41Z
dc.date.available2019-08-13T15:19:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an analytical method to investigate the effects of symmetric and asymmetric elastic supports on the nonlinear equilibria and buckling responses of shallow arches. It is found that arches with symmetric elastic supports can bifurcate into secondary paths with high-orderᅠsymmetricᅠmodes. When a small asymmetry exists in the elastic supports, the equilibria of the arch may abruptly split and lead to the occurrence ofᅠremote unconnected equilibria. Such unconnected equilibria can be obtained experimentally or numerically using typical path following controls only with prior knowledge of location of these paths. A small asymmetry in the elastic supports may also make a secondary branch shrink into points connecting surrounding equilibria, resulting in the appearance of more limit points. The analytical solutions are also derived to directly calculate critical loads. We find that the magnitude of the stiffness of symmetric elastic supports has no influence on limits loads and bifurcation loads at branching into secondary paths with symmetric configurations, but greatly affect the bifurcation loads of secondary paths with asymmetric configurations. All critical loads are very sensitive to the degree of asymmetry in the elastic supports. The asymmetry in the supports reduces the top values of all pairs of critical loads compared to the case of symmetric elastic supports. The results obtained from the analytical derivations are confirmed using finite element analysis (FEA).
dc.identifier.citationZhou, Yang, Yi, Zhuangpeng and Stanciulescu, Ilinca. "Nonlinear Buckling and Postbuckling of Shallow Arches With Vertical Elastic Supports." <i>Journal of Applied Mechanics,</i> 86, no. 6 (2019) The American Society of Mechanical Engineers: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4042572.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1115/1.4042572
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/106228
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by ASME.
dc.titleNonlinear Buckling and Postbuckling of Shallow Arches With Vertical Elastic Supports
dc.typeJournal article
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