Ramberg–Osgood material behavior expression and large deflections of Euler beams
Giardina R.J. Wei D.
February 2021SAGE Publications Inc.
Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
2021#26Issue 2179 - 198 pp.
Several assumptions are commonly made throughout the literature with regard to the mechanical expression of material behavior under a Ramberg–Osgood material model; specifically, the negligible effects of nonlinearity on the elastic behavior of the material. These assumptions do not reflect the complicated nonlinearity implied by the Ramberg–Osgood expression, which can lead to significant differences in the member model response from the true material behavior curve. With the proposed approach, new explicit results for Ramberg–Osgood materials are achieved without relying on these assumptions of material and model expression. The only assumptions present within the proposed model are the standard mechanical assumptions of an Euler beam. A general nonlinear moment–curvature relationship for monotone material behaviors is constructed. Large deflections of cantilever Euler beams with rectangular cross-sections under a combined loading are modeled. Numerical validation of this new method against results already given in the literature for the special cases of linear and power-law material behaviors are provided. An analysis is presented for three common material behavior relationships, with a focus on how these relationships are expressed through the deflection of members under the application of force within the model; this analysis clearly demonstrates that the sub-yield nonlinear behavior of the Ramberg–Osgood expression can be significant. The distinctions between material behavior expression demonstrated in this analysis have been long overlooked within the literature. This work addresses a gap between the modeling of Ramberg–Osgood material behaviors and the implementation of that model in mechanics.
Euler beam , inhomogeneous material behavior , large deflection , large deformation , nonlinear elasticity , nonlinear material expression , Nonlinear moment , Ramberg–Osgood
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