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LINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS
When loads are applied to a body the body deforms and the effects of loads are
transmitted throughout the body
The external forces induce internal forces and reactions to render the body into a state of
equilibrium
•All loads are applied gradually and slowly until they reach their full magnitude
•Inertial and damping forces to small velocities and accelerations are neglected
You can make linearity assumption if:
All material in the model comply with Hooke’s Law
The induced displacements are so small that they cause negligible change in the
geometric and material properties and hence the stiffness
Time variant loads that induce considerable inertial and damping forces may
warrant Dynamic Analysis
What does linear static analysis do?
It calculates the displacements, stresses, strains and reaction forces under the affect of
applied loads.
General Equation of motion
Non Linearity
Displacement
Linear Elastic : The curve is the linear and holds the same equation for both loading
and un loading
Non Linear –Elastic: The curve is non linear and holds the same equation for both
loading and unloading ( not true for structural steels but can be true for materials
like rubber)
Before entering into the subject of linear dynamic analysis we
will learn the following :
FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Mode shapes
Frequency studies:
•can help us to design a structure which has natural frequencies considerably away
from the frequency for the loading.
•Form the basis for evaluating the response of linear dynamic systems where the
response of a system to dynamic environment is assumed to be summation of the
responses of various modes considered in the analysis.
LINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS:
Static analysis assumes that the loads are constant or applied very slowly until
they reach their full values. Because of this assumption, the velocity and
acceleration of each particle of the model is assumed to be zero. As a result, static
studies neglect inertial and damping forces.
For many practical cases, loads are not applied slowly or they change with time or
frequency. For such cases, use a dynamic analysis. Generally if the frequency of a
load is larger than 1/3 of the lowest (fundamental) frequency, a dynamic study
should be used
Where as , In dynamic analysis the above are considered and also force
is time dependent.
Deterministic loads are well defined functions of time and can be predicted precisely.
They can be harmonic, periodic or non periodic- Example :centrifugal machine loading
Non deterministic loads cannot be defined explicitly as functions of time and they are
best described by statistical parameters- Example :earthquake loading
•If you apply some force and leave a system to vibrate, it will come to rest after
some time. This phenomenon is called damping
•For many cases damping effects are represented by equivalent viscous dampers
• Harmonic Analysis
Use modal time history analysis when the variation of each load with time is
known explicitly, and you are interested in the response as a function of time.
The objective of the modal analysis is to transform the coupled system into a set
of independent equations by using modal matrix as transformation matrix
The normal modes and eigenvalues of the system are derived from the solution of
the eigenvalue problem:
For linear systems, the system of n equations of motion can be de-coupled into
n single-degree-of-freedom equations in terms of the modal displacement
vector {x}:
[x]= {Φ}u
Substituting this in the main equation of motion and pre multiplying {Φ} T with
we get
{Φ} T[M] {Φ} u’’(t) + {Φ} T [C] {Φ} u‘ ( t) + {Φ} T [K] {Φ} u = {Φ} T F(t)
The normal modes satisfy the orthogonality property, and the modal matrix is
normalized to satisfy the following equations:
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
This analysis is used to calculate steady state peak response due to harmonic
loading or base excitations.
Although you can create a modal time history study and define loads as functions of
time, you may not be interested in the transient variation of the response with
time. In such cases, you save time and resources by solving for the steady-state
peak response at the desired operational frequency range using harmonic analysis.
RANDOM VIBRATION ANALYSIS
In a random vibration study, loads are described statistically by power spectral density
(psd) functions. The units of psd are the units of the load squared over frequency as a
function of frequency.
The normal modes are calculated first to decouple the equations of motion with the use of
generalized modal coordinates. The maximum modal responses are determined from the base
excitation response spectrum. With the use of modal combination techniques, the maximum
structural response is calculated by summing the contributions from each mode
LINEARIZED BUCKLING ANALYSIS
Buckling is a sudden deformation which occurs when stored axial energy is converted
in to bending energy without change in the externally applied load
The linearized buckling model solves an eigen value problem to determine the critical
buckling factors and the associated mode shapes
A model can buckle in different shapes under different levels of loading. The shape the
model takes while buckling is called buckling mode shape and the corresponding
loading is called the critical buckling load
Engineers are interested in the lowest buckling mode because it is associated with
the lowest critical buckling load
NON LINEAR ANALYSIS
All structures behave non linearly in one way or other beyond a particular level
of loading.
In some cases linear analysis may be adequate but in many cases the linear
analysis may produce an erroneous results as the assumptions on which linear
analysis is done may be violated in real time structure.
Non linear analysis is the most generalized form of analysis and linear analysis is
a sub-set of it.
Non linear analysis is needed if the loading produces a significant changes in the
stiffness
Major sources of structural non-linearities:
Nonlinear Response
Displacement
• One approach is to apply the load gradually by dividing it into a series of
increments and adjusting the stiffness matrix at the end of each increment.
• The problem with this approach is that errors accumulate with each load
increment, causing the final results to be out of equilibrium.
Error
External Load
Nonlinear Response
Calculated
Response
Displacement
Other Approach : Newton-Raphson algorithm:
• Applies the load gradually, in increments.
• Also performs equilibrium iterations at each load increment to drive the incremental
solution to equilibrium.
• Solves the equation [KT]{Du} = {F} - {Fnr} [KT]
[KT] = tangent stiffness matrix F
4 equilibrium
Fnr 3
{Du} = displacement increment 2 iterations
In this analysis ,unlike linear dynamic analysis the mass , damping and stiffness matrix
are varying and get updated during each iteration.
[M] t+ δ t {U '' } (i) + [C] t+ δ t {U ' } (i) + t+ δ t [K] (i) t+ δ t [ D U] (i) = t+ δ t {R} - t+ δ t {F} (i-1)
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