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On the stability of a deep beam subjected to nonconservative and dissipative forces

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Per una trave alta, incernierata agli estremi e sollecitata da un carico rotante con la sezione cui sia applicato e distribuito simmetricamente rispetto alla mezzeria della trave, si considera la dipendenza del carico critico di flutter dagli effetti di smorzamento interno ed esterno e della rigidezza biflessionale. Si assnmono (i) un solido di tipo Kelvin-Voigt e (ii) uno smorzamento esterno che sia proporzionale alla velocità. Dovuta al genere del carico non conservativo, la deformazione consiste di spostamenti di flessione e torsione. Poichè il problema ai limiti che descrive il moto del sistema possiede coefficienti variabili e non è antoaggiunto, si risolve il problema di constatare il valore del carico critico per un procedimento approssimativo mediante un principio variazionale. Si mostrano grafici che rivelano gli effetti dei diversi parametri di smorzamento e rigidezza sul valore del carico critico. I risultati numerici ottenuti qui mostrano che nell'assenza di smorzamento esterno il valore del carico critico diviene arbitrariamente minnto qualora il parametro di smorzamento interim associate con flessione lenda a zero.

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For the case of a simply supported deep beam subjected to a transverse follower load applied at its center, the dependence of the critical flutter load upon the effects of internal and external damping and warping rigidity is considered. A Kelvin-Voigt solid is assumed, the external damping is assumed to be proportional to the velocity of the beam at a point, and, due to the nature of the nonconservative applied load, the flexural and torsional deformations of the beam are coupled. The resulting boundary value problem is nonself-adjoint in character, and the stability problem is solved in an approximate manner by means of an adjoint variational principle. Several graphs are presented to demonstrate the effect of the various damping and rigidity parameters on the value of the critical flutter load. The numerical results obtained here reveal that in the absence of external damping, the value of the critical flutter load becomes arbitrarily small as the internal damping parameter associated with flexure tends to zero.

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Anderson, G.L. On the stability of a deep beam subjected to nonconservative and dissipative forces. Meccanica 9, 102–110 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02209513

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