Free vibration and aeroelastic analyses of rectangular cantilever plates including correlation with experiment

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Amirkabir University

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Ocean Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

In the present study, the free vibration and aeroelastic problems of rectangular cantilever plates with varying aspect ratio have been investigated. The classical plate theories based on the Kirchhoff hypothesis have been adopted to simulate the structural response of the plate. The Peter’s theory is selected to model the aerodynamic pressure on the plate due to the incompressible air flow. To discretize the partial deferential equations of the system, the ayleigh-Ritz method has been applied and by using Lagrange equations, the mass, damping, and stiffness matrices have been derived. Various numbers of mode shapes are used to show the convergence of the response of the system . The theoretical results including the natural frequencies and flutter speed have been evaluated by using the experimental data obtained from the ground vibration experiment carried out at Duke University. It has been shown that for
a relatively low aspect ratio rectangular cantilever plate, using some techniques in Rayleigh–Ritz method leads to an improvement of the results for both the natural frequencies and flutter speed. This technique ends up having two sets of decoupled equations and consequently, the number of equations that have to be solved simultaneously is divided by two. This could lead to a reduction of computational time significantly.

Highlights

  • The free vibrations and aeroelastic analyses of a rectangular cantilever plate is presented
  • The classical plate theory based on the Kirchhoff hypothesis is the structural model.
  • Peters’ aerodynamic model is used to calculate the aerodynamic load.
  • Rayleigh-Ritz method has been adopted for the discretization of the problem.
  • Rayleigh-Ritz method improved the results for the natural frequencies and flutter speed.
  • The study includes a comparison with experimental data.

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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Vibration and Acoustics
Volume 6, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
January 2020
Pages 103-118

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