Computer Modeling for the Complex Response Analysis of Nonstandard Structural Dynamics Problems

Abstract

Over the past several decades, two intriguing classes of problems, having a wide range of applications in engineering, have been of interest to many researchers: (1) coupled dynamics of a distributed parameter system traversed by one or more moving oscillators; and (2) transient dynamic analysis of axially moving media (and associated phenomena of parametric resonances). Bridge vehicle interaction falls into the first class of problems, and the analysis of flexible appendages deployed from a satellite or a spacecraft is typical of the second class. Mathematically, these two problems are dual to each other, and they often are highly nonlinear in nature and typically involve large overall motion in space with complex effects of convective inertia terms in their governing equations of dynamic equilibrium. The “nonstandard” analytical nature of these problems stems from the fact that we are dealing with one or more of the following peculiarities: (1) variable problem domain; (2) varying spatial distribution o...