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Dynamic Buckling Analysis of Shell Structures using a Finite Element Based

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 Dynamic Buckling Analysis of Shell
Structures using a Finite Element Based
Reduction Method
T. Rahman and E.L. Jansen
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
P.O. Box 5058, NL 2600 GB Delft
phone +31-(0)15-2782084, email t.rahman@tudelft.nl

Introduction and objective Results and discussion

The current simulation methods (Finite Element computer
models) for nonlinear structural analysis calculations re-
quire a lot of effort and expertise from the user, and need
a long computer run time. Therefore there is a strong need
firstly for reduced complexity intermediate tools that help
in providing a systematic approach to achieve reliable re-
sults, and secondly for faster computational tools. Such
tools are not yet available in most of the commercial FE
codes. The current research aims at the FE implementa-
tion for reduced complexity dynamic buckling analysis of
shell structures. Here a single-mode analysis is presented.
Full model nonlinear analysis
A characteristic case is shown where a composite cylin-
drical shell is subject to external pressure applied as a
step loading. The resulting negative b coefficient (b =
−6.2664 × 10−2 ) indicates an unstable post-buckling na-
ture and imperfection sensitivity. In Figure 2 we notice that
both for full model explicit and reduced analysis, between
the load levels λ /λc = 0.82 and λ /λc = 0.83 the structure
shows a sharp change in the response identifying the oc-
currence of dynamic buckling. Therefore a good estimation
of the dynamic buckling load is possible with the current
reduction method. The method will be extended to multi-
mode analysis in future work.

FE based Reduced Complexity Methods

Perturbation Methods Reduced Basis Methods

Full model linear analysis

Figure 1 : Reduced complexity analysis

Figure 2 : Deformation modes, u1 (left) and u2 (right)

Methods
Koiter’s perturbation approach describes the static initial
post-buckling path by an asymptotic expansion of the dis- 0.35
Reduced (0.82) Full (0.82) Full (0.83) Reduced (0.83)

placement field around the bifurcation point. In the present

0.3
work this approach is extended for dynamic buckling anal-
Displacement [in.]

0.25
ysis according to [1]. If the dynamic loading is assumed
to take the form f = λ (t)f0 then for a single mode analysis 0.2

the perturbation expansion of the displacement field can 0.15

be written as 0.1

u = λ (t)u0 + u1 ξ (t) + u2 ξ (t) + . . . 2

(1) 0.05

0
where u0 is the pre-buckling displacement mode, u1 and 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005
Time [s]
0.006 0.007 0.008 0.009

u2 are the buckling and second order modes, and ξ is the

modal amplitude. Perturbation expansion of the load pa-
rameter λ gives Figure 3 : Comparison with full model analysis (ξ̄ = 0.1t)
 1  h λ (t) i h λ (t) i
ξ̈ (t) + 1 − ξ (t) + a ξ 2
(t) + b ξ 3
(t) = ξ̄ (2)
ω12 λc λc
where λc is the static buckling load, the post-buckling co-
efficients a, b correspond respectively to the post-buckling References
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