Exact Solution of Supercritical Axially Moving Beams: Symmetric and Anti-Symmetric Configurations

Abstract

We present an exact solution for supercritical configurations of axially moving beams with arbitrary boundary conditions. We take into account the geometric nonlinearity of the traveling beams in supercritical regime, and the nonlinear buckling problem is analytically solved. A closed-form solution for the supercritical configuration in terms of the axial speed is obtained. Some typical boundary conditions, such as fixed-fixed, fixed-pinned and pinned-pinned, are discussed. More importantly, based on the exact solution, we found a new anti-symmetric configuration for the fixed-fixed axially moving beams. The traveling beam may vibrate around the new anti-symmetric configuration at sufficiently high traveling speeds. A good accuracy of the solution is confirmed by a comparison with the data available in the literature, and with our own numerical results. © 2012 Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Anti-Symmetric Configuration; Boundary Condition; Exact Solution; Supercritical Axially Moving Beam

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0939-1533

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2013 Springer Verlag, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2013

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