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COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 267, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.113829
Keywords
Anisotropic materials; Doubly curved shells; Equivalent single layer analysis; Generalized differential quadrature; Higher order theories; Mapped geometry; Variable thickness
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An innovative strategy based on the Equivalent Single Layer approach is proposed to analyze doubly-curved shells made of anisotropic materials, using the Hamiltonian Principle and GDQ method for numerical solution. Several examples were provided to validate the method, and a large parametric investigation was conducted to assess the sensitivity of vibration response in generally-curved shell structures.
Anisotropic materials are widely used in many complex structures and panels, whose modelling can represent a challenging issue for engineers, especially when variable geometries are involved. In the present work we propose a novel strategy, based on the Equivalent Single Layer (ESL) approach, to analyze doubly-curved shells with constant and/or varying thicknesses made of completely anisotropic materials. An isogeometric mapping procedure is applied to define the reference surface, thus enabling to study a wide range of structural shapes. Different higher order theories are here applied in a unified setting to describe the kinematic field, where the governing equations of the problem are realized applying the Hamiltonian Principle, and solved numerically in a strong form with the 2D Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method. Several examples are illustrated for validation purposes of the proposed method, whose results are compared with predictions from 3D finite elements. A large parametric investigation is also performed to assess the sensitivity of the vibration response of generally-curved shell structures to different stacking sequences, material typologies, and boundary conditions.
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