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Bistable polar-orthotropic shallow shells.


ABSTRACT: We investigate stabilizing and eschewing factors on bistability in polar-orthotropic shells in order to enhance morphing structures. The material law causes stress singularities when the circumferential stiffness is smaller than the radial stiffness (? < 1), requiring a careful choice of the trial functions in our Ritz approach, which employs a higher-order geometrically nonlinear analytical model. Bistability is found to strongly depend on the orthotropic ratio, ?, and the in-plane support conditions. An investigation of their interaction offers a new perspective on the effect of the hoop stiffness on bistability: while usually perceived as promoting, it is shown to be only stabilizing insofar as it prevents radial expansions; however, if in-plane supports are present, it becomes a redundant feature. Closed-form approximations of the bistable threshold are then provided by single-curvature-term approaches. For significantly stiffer values of the radial stiffness, a strong coupling of the orthotropic ratio and the support conditions is revealed: while roller-supported shells are monostable, fixed-pinned ones are most disposed to stable inversions; insight is given by comparing to a simplified beam model. Eventually, we show that cutting a central hole is a suitable method to deal with stress singularities: while fixed-pinned shells are barely affected by a hole, the presence of a hole strongly favours bistable inversions in roller-supported shells.

SUBMITTER: Sobota PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731734 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bistable polar-orthotropic shallow shells.

Sobota P M PM   Seffen K A KA  

Royal Society open science 20190807 8


We investigate stabilizing and eschewing factors on bistability in polar-orthotropic shells in order to enhance morphing structures. The material law causes stress singularities when the circumferential stiffness is smaller than the radial stiffness (<i>β</i> < 1), requiring a careful choice of the trial functions in our Ritz approach, which employs a higher-order geometrically nonlinear analytical model. Bistability is found to strongly depend on the orthotropic ratio, <i>β</i>, and the in-plan  ...[more]

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