Harmonic response of large engineering structures with nonlinear modifications

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2011

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Kalaycıoğlu, Taner

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During the design and development stages of mechanical structures, after each modification made in order to satisfy design criteria, dynamic characteristics of the structure change and should be determined through reanalyzing the structure dynamically. Due to the significance of computational time and cost in design processes, it is inevitable for structural modification methods, especially for large systems, to become involved in predicting the dynamic behavior of modified structures from those of the original and modifying structures. Since most engineering structures are inherently nonlinear, linear approach may not be valid no more. Therefore, conventional structural modification methods can not be directly used, instead a nonlinear structural modification method needs to be employed. In this thesis, it is aimed to adapt an effective linear structural modification method to structures with nonlinear modification or coupling. The amplitude dependencies of nonlinearities are modeled by using describing function method. Mathematical formulations are embedded in a computer program developed in MATLAB® with a graphical user interface. The software uses modal analysis results of ANSYS® for the original structure and dynamic stiffness matrix and nonlinearity information that belong to the modifying structure in order to calculate dynamic response of the modified structure. The approach is verified by applying it to both discrete and real test structures previously studied in literature and generated discrete structures, then comparing the results with prior ones and ones obtained via time domain integration, respectively. Several other case studies are also included in order to demonstrate the applicability and to investigate the performance of the method. It is concluded in this study that the structural modification method proposed can be successfully and efficiently used for structures with nonlinear modification or coupling.

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Mechanics, applied.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613582/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21088

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis