Vibration analysis of quasi-symmetric structures (Q581076)
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Vibration analysis of quasi-symmetric structures (English)
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1987
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An efficient computational procedure is presented for the free vibration analysis of structures with unsymmetric geometry. The procedure is based on approximating the unsymmetric vibrational response of the structure by a linear combination of a few symmetric and antisymmetric modes (global approximation vectors), each obtained using approximately half the degrees of freedom of the original model. The three key elements of the procedure are: (a) use of mixed finite element models having independent shape functions for the internal forces (stress resultants) and generalized displacements, with the internal forces allowed to be discontinuous at interelement boundaries, (b) operator splitting, or additive decomposition of the different arrays in the governing finite element equations to delineate the contributions to the symmetric and antisymmetric response vectors, and (c) use of a reduction method through successive application of the finite element method and the classical Bubnov-Galerkin technique. The finite element method is first used to generate a few symmetric and antisymmetric global approximation response vectors. Then, the classical Bubnov-Galerkin technique is used to substantially reduce the size of the eigenvalue problem. An initial set of global approximation vectors is selected to be a few symmetric and antisymmetric eigenvectors and their various-order derivatives with respect to a tracing parameter identifying all the correction terms to the symmetric (and antisymmetric) eigenvectors. A modified (improved) set of approximation vectors is obtained by using the inverse iteration procedure. The effectiveness of the proposed procedure is demonstrated by means of a numerical example.
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free vibration
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unsymmetric geometry
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approximating the unsymmetric vibrational response
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linear combination of a few symmetric and antisymmetric modes
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global approximation vectors
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mixed finite element models
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operator splitting
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reduction method
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Bubnov-Galerkin technique
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eigenvalue problem
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inverse iteration procedure
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