On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities

Weakly clamped uniformly stretched thin elastic plates can experience edge buckling when subjected to a transverse pressure. This situation is revisited here for a circular plate, under the assumption of finite rotations and negligible bending stiffness in the pre-buckling range. The eigenproblem de...

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Main Author: Coman, Ciprian D.
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Published: Springer 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48940/
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description Weakly clamped uniformly stretched thin elastic plates can experience edge buckling when subjected to a transverse pressure. This situation is revisited here for a circular plate, under the assumption of finite rotations and negligible bending stiffness in the pre-buckling range. The eigenproblem describing this instability is formulated in terms of two singularly perturbed fourth-order differential equations involving the non-dimensional bending stiffness ε>0. By using an extension of the asymptotic reduction technique proposed by Coman and Haughton (Acta Mech 55:179–200, 2006), these equations are formally reduced to a simple second-order ordinary differential equation in the limit ε→0+. It is further shown that the predictions of this reduced problem are in excellent agreement with the direct numerical simulations of the original bifurcation equations.
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spelling nottingham-489402020-05-04T19:52:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48940/ On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities Coman, Ciprian D. Weakly clamped uniformly stretched thin elastic plates can experience edge buckling when subjected to a transverse pressure. This situation is revisited here for a circular plate, under the assumption of finite rotations and negligible bending stiffness in the pre-buckling range. The eigenproblem describing this instability is formulated in terms of two singularly perturbed fourth-order differential equations involving the non-dimensional bending stiffness ε>0. By using an extension of the asymptotic reduction technique proposed by Coman and Haughton (Acta Mech 55:179–200, 2006), these equations are formally reduced to a simple second-order ordinary differential equation in the limit ε→0+. It is further shown that the predictions of this reduced problem are in excellent agreement with the direct numerical simulations of the original bifurcation equations. Springer 2018-03 Article PeerReviewed Coman, Ciprian D. (2018) On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities. Acta Mechanica, 229 (3). pp. 1099-1109. ISSN 1619-6937 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00707-017-2036-8 doi:10.1007/s00707-017-2036-8 doi:10.1007/s00707-017-2036-8
spellingShingle Coman, Ciprian D.
On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
title On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
title_full On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
title_fullStr On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
title_full_unstemmed On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
title_short On the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
title_sort on the asymptotic reduction of a bifurcation equation for edge-buckling instabilities
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48940/
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