Shear Deformation Effect in Flexural-torsional Vibrations of Composite Beams by Boundary Element Method (BEM)

Abstract

In this paper a boundary element method (BEM) is developed for the general flexural-torsional vibration problem of Timoshenko beams of arbitrarily shaped composite cross-section taking into account the effects of warping stiffness, warping and rotary inertia and shear deformation. The composite beam consists of materials in contact, each of which can surround a finite number of inclusions. The materials have different elasticity and shear moduli with same Poisson’s ratio and are firmly bonded together. The beam is subjected to arbitrarily transverse and/or torsional distributed or concentrated loading, while its edges are restrained by the most general linear boundary conditions. The resulting initial boundary value problem, described by three coupled partial differential equations, is solved employing a boundary integral equation approach. Besides the effectiveness and accuracy of the developed method, a significant advantage is that the displacements as well as the stress resultants are computed at any cross-section of the beam using the respective integral representations as mathematical formulae. All basic equations are formulated with respect to the principal shear axes coordinate system, which does not coincide with the principal bending one in a non-symmetric cross-section. To account for shear deformations, the concept of shear deformation coefficients is used. Six boundary value problems are formulated with respect to the transverse displacements, to the angle of twist, to the primary warping function and to two stress functions and solved using the Analog Equation Method, a BEM-based method. Both free and forced vibrations are examined. Several beams are analyzed to illustrate the method and demonstrate its efficiency and wherever possible its accuracy.

Keywords

Boundary element method composite beam dynamic analysis flexural-torsional vibration shear deformation twist warping vibrations.

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