Adaptive mesh refinement for finite element analysis of the free vibration disturbance of cylindrical shells due to circumferential micro-crack damage

Wang, Yongliang, Hu, Jiansong, Kennedy, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8837-7296, Wang, Jianhui and Wu, Jiali 2022. Adaptive mesh refinement for finite element analysis of the free vibration disturbance of cylindrical shells due to circumferential micro-crack damage. Engineering Computations 39 (9) , pp. 3271-3295. 10.1108/EC-09-2021-0555

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Abstract

Purpose Moderately thick circular cylindrical shells are widely used as supporting structures or storage cavities in structural engineering, rock engineering, and aerospace engineering. In practical engineering, shells often work with micro-cracks or defects. The existence of micro-crack damage may result in the disturbance of dynamic behaviours and even induce accidental dynamic disasters. The free vibration frequency and mode are important parameters for the dynamic performance and damage identification analysis. In particular, stiffness weakening of the local damage region leads to significant changes in the vibration mode, which makes it difficult for the mesh generated in the conventional finite element method to capture a high-precision solution of the local oscillation. Design/methodology/approach In response to the above problems, this study developed an adaptive finite element method and a crack damage characterisation method for moderately thick circular cylindrical shells. By introducing the inverse power iteration method, error estimation, and mesh subdivision refinement technique for the analysis of finite element eigenvalue problems, an adaptive computation scheme was constructed for the free vibration problem of moderately thick circular cylindrical shells with circumferential crack damage. Findings Based on typical numerical examples, the established adaptive finite element solution for the free vibration of moderately thick circular cylindrical shells demonstrated its suitability for solving the high-precision free vibration frequency and mode of cylindrical shell structures. The any order frequency and mode shape of cracked cylindrical shells under the conditions of different ring wave numbers, crack locations, crack depths, and multiple cracks were successfully solved. The influences of the location, depth, and number of cracks on the disturbance of dynamic behaviours were analysed. Originality/value This study can be used as a reference for the adaptive finite element solution of free vibration of moderately thick circular cylindrical shells with cracks and lays the foundation for further development of a high-performance computation method suitable for the dynamic disturbance and damage identification analysis of general cracked structures.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Emerald
ISSN:	0246-4401
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 June 2022
Date of Acceptance:	30 May 2022
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 17:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150271

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