Double restabilization and design of force-displacement response of the extensible elastica with movable constraints

DOI10.1016/J.EUROMECHSOL.2022.104745zbMATH Open1519.74038arXiv2208.05248OpenAlexW4286639041MaRDI QIDQ6162935FDOQ6162935

Authors: P. Koutsogiannakis, Davide Bigoni, F. Dal Corso 

Publication date: 16 June 2023

Published in: European Journal of Mechanics. A. Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A highly deformable rod, modelled as the extensible elastica, is connected to a movable clamp at one end and to a pin sliding along a frictionless curved profile at the other. Bifurcation analysis shows that axial compliance provides a stabilizing effect in compression, but unstabilizing in tension. Moreover, with varying the constraint's curvature at the origin and the axial vs bending rod's stiffness, in addition to possible buckling in tension, the structure displays none, two, or even four bifurcation loads, the last two associated only to the first buckling mode in compression. Therefore, the straight configuration may lose and recover stability one or two times, thus evidencing single and double restabilization, a feature never observed before. By means of the closed-form solution for the extensible elastica, the quasi-static behaviour of the structure is analytically described under large rotations and axial strain. The presented solution is exploited, together with an {it ad hoc} developed optimization algorithm, to design the shape of the constraint's profile necessary to obtain a desired force-displacement curve, so to realize a force-limiter or a mechanical device capable of delivering a complex force response upon application of a continuous displacement in both positive and negative direction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05248

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcation analysismultistabilityoptimization algorithmEuler bucklingtensile bucklingfrictionless constraint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Optimization of other properties in solid mechanics (74P10) Elastic materials (74B99) Bifurcation and buckling (74G60)

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