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JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4025412
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- U.S. Army through the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Structural and aeroelastic analyses using beam theories by default choose a cross section that is perpendicular to the reference line. In several cases, such as swept wings with high AR, a beam theory that allows for the choice of a cross section that is oblique to the reference line may be more convenient. This work uses the variational asymptotic method (VAM) to develop such a beam theory. The problems addressed are the planar deformation of a strip and the full 3D deformation of a solid, prismatic, right-circular cylinder, both made of homogeneous, isotropic material. The motivation for choosing these problems is primarily the existence of 3D elasticity solutions, which comprise a complete validation set for all possible deformations and which are shown to be accurately captured by the current analysis. A secondary motivation was that the development and final results of the beam theory, i.e., the cross-sectional stiffness matrix and stress-strain-displacement recovery relations, are obtainable as closed-form analytical expressions. These results, coupled with the VAM-based beam analysis being devoid of ad hoc assumptions, culminate in what is expected to be of significance when formulating a general oblique cross-sectional analysis for beams with anisotropic material and initial curvature/twist, the detailed treatment of which will be alluded to in a later paper.
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