Local Tensile Strength of Connection Between H-Steel Beam Flange and Concrete-Filled Circular Column Tube with Through Diaphragm

This paper focused on investigating local tensile strength of connection between steel beam flange and concrete-filled circular column tube with through diaphragm. Three specimens were designed and tested to failure,and the structure behavior was studied by experiment and FEM analysis. On the basis of the results obtained, an estimation for local plastic and ultimate strengths of the connections using yield line theory was attempted, which results in a good prediction.     

Equivalent Bar Conceptions for Computer Analysis of Pantographic Foldable Structures

An equivalent bar conception is firstly developed for the computer analysis of pantographic foldable structures. The uniplet of two three-node beam elements is assumed as a six-bar assembly with respect to least norm least square solution for the elastic strain energy equality. The equilibrium equation is developed for the equivalent models, and the internal forces formulated sequently for backup calculation. This procedure is proved practical for some engineering, and some interesting concepts proposed. Finally, three numerical tests are presented.     

Aerodynamic characteristics of airship Zhiyuan-1

An airship named ＂Zhiyuan-l＂ was designed/fabricated/flied as a technical demonstration for stratospheric airship during 2007--2009 by Shanghai Jiaotong University. The calculation method and procedure of aerodynamic parameters were introduced, and the optimized configuration of the hull and the aerodynamic layout were given in this paper. Wind tunnel tests with different configurations, different pitch angles and different yaw angles were performed to study the wind load characteristics of the rigid model of the airship ＂Zhiyuan-1＂ in the φ3.2 m wind tunnel at China Aerodynamics Research ＆ Development Center. Also the numerical calculation about the test model was carried out to investigate the aerodynamic behavior. According to the results of wind test and numerical calculation, the excellent hull configuration of the airship ＂Zhiyuan-1＂ with lower drag characteristic was confirmed, which is based on optimism of the Michel transition law. And the phenomena of pressure coefficient distribution were discussed according to the results of wind tunnel test and numerical calculation at different flight attitudes.     

Wrinkle analysis of the space inflatable paraboloid antenna

The presence of wrinkles in the membrane is the main factor to induce the reflector surface inaccuracy of the space inflatable antenna. Based on the commercial finite element package ABAQUS, a numerical procedure for membrane wrinkle analysis was set up and used to analyze a space inflatable antenna which was under inner pressure to evaluate its wrinkle characteristics. First, the inner pressure effect on the reflector’s wrinkle pattern was studied thoroughly. As inner pressure increases, both the number and the amplitude of the wrinkles decrease, but the total deformation of the whole reflector surface increases much. Second, the influence of the interactions between antenna’s parts was investigated comprehensively. Any kind of unwanted interaction deteriorates reflector’s wrinkle characteristics. The works are valuable to the development and research of the space inflatable antenna.     

Quasi-static Deployment Simulation for Deployable Space Truss Structures

IntroductionDeployable space trusses have been used wide-ly in the past space missions,and attract increas-ingly the interests of researchers. The essentialcharacteristic is that the geometric configurationtransformation must meetthe limits of the payloadmodule during launch phase and primary require-ments of space mission in orbit.This poses a greatchallenge to numerical simulation.　　 In this paper,Cartesian coordinates of the ide-alized truss nodes are assumed as variables,a newmethod is …     

Computational method for prestress developing of tensile cable-net structures

The prestress developing of tensile cable-net structures is a state transforming process from the initial unstressed state to the final prestressed state, and it is rather complicated because the elastic deformation is normally coupled with the kinematic mechanism movement. Firstly, the basic equations of prestress developing by moving boundary joint are derived from the total potential energy equation. Secondly, the presumed initial tension is proposed to impose into the elements and avoid the singularity of global stiffness matrix. And the self-stress mode which is calculated from the equilibrium matrix with singular value decomposition is employed as basically presumed initial tension. By applying boundary movement increment, an iterative computation is developed to calculate the updating geometric configuration and tension evolution. Finally, the MATLAB program is coded from the presented method, and numerical examples indicate that this computational method is effective and has theoretical significance and valuable guide to design and construction of tensile cable-net structure.     

GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR FE FORMULATIONS FOR THE MACRO-ELEMENT UNIPLET OF FOLDABLE STRUCTURES

Introduction　　 Pantographic foldable structure works on theprinciple of a pantograph[1,2 ] . A structure of thistype may be referred to as“pantograph structure”,or simply“p- structure”. The basic unit for the p-structure is a componentso- called duplet[3 ] ,orpan-tograph unit[4] ,Scissor- Like Element ( SLE) [5] ,asshown in Fig.1 .A pantograph unitconsists of twocoplanar straightbars called uniplet,which are ca-pable of rotating about the intermediate pivot,re-ferred to as a scissor h…     

Initial pre-stress finding and structural behaviors analysis of cable net based on linear adjustment theory

The tensile cable-strut structure is a self-equilibrate pre-stressed system. The initial pre-stress calculation is the fundamental structural analysis. A new numerical procedure was developed. The force density method is the cornerstone of analytical formula, and then introduced into linear adjustment theory;the least square least norm solution, the optimized initial pre-stress, is yielded. The initial pre-stress and structural performances of a particular single-layer saddle-shaped cable-net structure were analyzed with the developed method, which is proved to be efficient and correct. The modal analyses were performed with respect to various pre-stress levels. Finally, the structural performances were investigated comprehensively.     

Experimental and stowing/deploying dynamical simulation of lenticular carbon fiber reinforced polymer thin-walled tubular space boom

The stowing and deploying experiment was conducted for three 700 mm long thin-walled tubes, and the structural behavior characteristics parameters were measured clearly, including strain, deformation and wrapping moment. 3D finite element models (FEM) were built subsequently and explicit dynamic method was used to simulate the stowing and deploying of the lenticular carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) thin-walled tubular space boom, which was designed as four-ply (45°/ − 45°/45°/ − 45°) lay-up. The stress and energy during the wrapping process were got and compared with different wrapping angular velocity, the reasonable wrapping angular velocity and effective method were conformed, and structural behavior characteristics were obtained. The results were compared and discussed as well, and the results show that the numerical results by 0.628 rad/s velocity agree well with the measured values. In this paper, the numerical procedure and experimental results are valuable to the optimization design of CFRP thin-walled tubular space boom and future research.     

Structural design conception and analysis for the structural system of large flexible airship

Nine kinds of structure systems were proposed for the flexible airship according to the inherent structural characteristics. On the basis of equilibrium configuration of the floating airship subjected to the ascent helium buoyancy and gravity, the structural analysis procedure was developed and the computation models were presented for the airship. Then the systematic numerical analysis was carried out for a 25m long airship, the comparison of principal stress of envelope was performed between the nonlinear numerical analysis result and the engineering elastic theory result. The structural performances were evaluated thoroughly. Finally, the reasonable structural systems were proposed. Accordingly, the results herein were valuable to structural design for flexible airship especially for large flexible airship.