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Design Exercise 6 1.050 Solid Mechanics Fall 2004

1) The document describes a proposed experiment to demonstrate how an axial load affects the bending stiffness of a beam. 2) The beam is made of two or four identical flexures that are fixed at one end and free to move horizontally at the other end under a transverse force. 3) Applying both an axial load (P) and transverse force (F) changes the stiffness (K) of the system from the unloaded stiffness (K0). The stiffness depends on a parameter (α) involving P, and reaches zero when α equals the beam's buckling load.

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Design Exercise 6 1.050 Solid Mechanics Fall 2004

1) The document describes a proposed experiment to demonstrate how an axial load affects the bending stiffness of a beam. 2) The beam is made of two or four identical flexures that are fixed at one end and free to move horizontally at the other end under a transverse force. 3) Applying both an axial load (P) and transverse force (F) changes the stiffness (K) of the system from the unloaded stiffness (K0). The stiffness depends on a parameter (α) involving P, and reaches zero when α equals the beam's buckling load.

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Design Exercise 6 1.

050 Solid Mechanics Fall 2004


You are to design a new experiment for 1.105, one which will demonstrate the effect of an axial load on the bending stiffness of a beam constrained as shown in the appendix. The proposed experimental set-up is shown in the gure. x

F EI exure L

P EI v(x)

The beam is actually two (or four) identical exures whose ends, rmly xed to the rigid plate at some distance L above the ground may still move freely in the horizontal direction.

Specications are: Maximum values for the weight P and the force F are limited to the maximum weights we used in our experiments this semester in 1.105. The horizontal deection should be visible, on the order of 0.1 inches. A dial gage will be used to obtain exact values. The apparatus should t within the area available at a bay in the lab. A reduction in stiffness of at least 50% (from the P=0 value) should be possible. The exures are to be made of a high strength steel and should not yield. Tensile Strength = 140E03 psi Yield Strength = 80E03 psi The attached catalogue sheet shows a range of stock sizes for exure material.1

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Design Exercise 6

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LL Bucciarelli

Appendix
In class last week, we set-up and solved the buckling problem of a beam xed at one end - x = 0 in the gure - and constrained, in what at rst appears to be a very unlikely condition, at the other end x = L, namely, the transverse deection is unrestrained while the slope of the deected curve is constrained to be zero. The rst of these conditions implies that the shear force is zero at x = L.

We solved the homogeneous differential equation ( EI ) dv dx


4 4

EI v(x)

+P

dv dx
2

= 0 L
= 0
x=0

with the homogeneous boundary conditions:


v(0) = 0 dv dx
3

at x=0

and dv dx = 0
x=L

( EI )

dv dx
3

+P

dv = V = 0 dx

at x=L dv dx
3 3

but, since the slope was zero at x = L, this last condition became The general solution to the differential equation is:
P P - x + c 4 cos -----x v ( x ) = c 1 + c 2 x + c 3 sin ----EI EI

= 0

at x=L .

and the boundary conditions gave four homogeneous equations for the four constants, the cs, namely: at x= 0. v(0)=0: dv/dx= 0: at x = L. dv/dx= 0: d 3 v/dx 3 = 0:
= P ----EI

c1 c2 c2

c3 +( cos L)c 3 +( 3cos L)c 3

+ c4

=0 =0

-( sin L)c 4 -( 3sin L)c 4

=0 =0

where we set

For a non-trivial solution of this system, the determinant of the coecients must vanish. This led to the condition sin L = 0 which gave a lowest buckling load of

L = .

The corresponding buckling mode shape was obtained from the boundary conditions, attempting to solve for the cs. From the last condition, with sin L = 0, we obtained c 3 = 0; the third then gave c 2 = 0; leaving us with the rst which required c 1 = - c 4 . and hence the mode shape
v
mode

x ( x ) = c 4 1 cos ---- L

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LL Bucciarelli

We now consider the same structural system, but in addition to the axial load P, we apply a transverse force F at the end x = L. The gure below shows our new set-up. The differential equation remains the same and three of the four boundary conditions remain the same. But the condition at x=L on the shear changes for now we have, consistent with our usual sign convention: V = F. So our boundary conditions now are:
v(0) = 0 dv dx = 0
x=0

EI v(x) x

at x=0

and dv dx = 0
x=L

( EI )

dv dx
3

+P

dv = F dx

at x=L
3

F = ----and again, since the slope was zero at x = L, this last condition becomes d v 3 dx EI

at x=L .

This is a signicantly different problem now. It is no-longer an eigenvalue problem because we no longer are presented with a homogeneous system of equations. In fact, we can now solve explicitly for the cs from the boundary conditions: at x= 0. v(0)=0: dv/dx= 0: at x = L. dv/dx= 0: d 3 v/dx 3 = - F/EI:
F ( 1 cos L ) - ----------------------------c 1 = ----------3 sin L EI F c 2 = ----------2 EI

c1 c2 c2

c3 +( cos L)c 3

+ c4

=0 =0

-( sin L)c 4

=0 = F/EI

+( 3cos L)c 3
F c 3 = ----------3 EI

-( 3sin L)c 4

The solution to these, which you are to verify, is:


and ( 1 cos L ) F c 4 = ----------- ----------------------------3 sin L EI

so the transverse displacement at any x is:


F ( cos L 1 ) - ----------------------------- ( cos x 1 ) x + sin x v ( x ) = ----------3 sin L EI EI sin L

and

F 2 ( 1 cos L ) - -------------------------------at x = L, the displacement is v ( L ) = = ----------- L which you should also verify**. 3

If we let

FL 2 ( 1 cos ) - ----------------------------- we can write: = -----------3 EI sin

**

which, for small alpha - which means for small axial load P - I can show that
FL 2 - [ 1 + terms of order ] = ----------12EI
3

which should look familiar. (Recall Problem 11.1). For alpha not small we can write
F = K 12EI sin - ----- --------------------------------------------------K = ----------3 12 2 ( 1 cos ) sin L
3

where

**

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LL Bucciarelli

So we see that the stiffness of the system, the K, depends upon the axial load P. If we let K0 be the stiffness with no axial load, P = a = 0, i.e., K0 = 12EI/L3 we can write
K = K 0 f () sin - --------------------------------------------------f ( ) = ---- sin 12 2 ( 1 cos )
3

where

**

and plot f as a function of alpha.


f() = K/K0

PL2 EI

Note that when = , the stiffness vanishes! This means that it requires no transverse force F to produce a transverse displacement! Note too that = means that the axial load is just equal to the buckling load of the system found previously. *** The bending moment distribution along the exure is obtained from the moment curvature relationship, knowing v(x). 2
M b = EI dv dx
2

Verify that the bending moment distribution may be written

x x - cos 1 -cos - L L M b = FL --------------------------------------------------------- sin

and that its maximum (in magnitude) is obtained at either end of the beam.

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LL Bucciarelli

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