Study of plated structures of constant thicknesses: a boundary element method approach

Author(s)

Ângelo Vieira Mendonça

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2002-07-12

Examining board members

Humberto Breves Coda; Webe João Mansur; Leandro Palermo Junior

• Advisor: João Batista de Paiva

Abstract

Firstly in this work, two formulations of the boundary element method for the linear elastic analysis of plated structures of uniform thicknesses are presented. In both models, the behaviour of each plate unit is analysed taken into account the effects from the plate in bending and the plate in tension. The bending plate is assumed under Kirchhoff\'s hypotheses. In the first approach, the variables of the problem are represented by a set of four degrees of freedom (DOFs) in displacements and forces associated with the plate in tension (normal and tangential displacements and their respective tractions) and the plate in bending (transverse displacements, normal slope and their efforts represented by Kirchhoff force and bending moment). This approach was called four-parameter model. In the second approach, two further variables are inserted into the four-parameter model, resulting in a six-parameter technique. Hence, the displacement vector is populated by normal, tangential, transverse displacements and by normal, tangential and zenithal slopes. The last variable is associated with a rotation acting along the perpendicular direction to median plane of the plate unit. In addition, for the six-parameter model the force vector has only four DOFs (normal, tangential forces in tension plate problem and bending moment and Kirchhoff force in bending case). Initially, the influence matrices are assembled for both models and then special techniques are only employed into six-parameter approach in order to solve an incompatibility of orders between the influence matrices of displacements and forces. Then the subregion technique is used to assemble the final system of equations of the noncoplanar plated structure. From the four and six parameter elastic models for noncoplanar plated structures, the elastoplastic behaviour is incorporated into these approaches as initial tensor fields (stress/moment or strain/curvature) in order to analyse coplanar problems using classical representations for the loading surface. (AU)