Steel and Composite Structures
Volume 10, Number 2, 2010, pages 151-168
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2010.10.2.151
Dynamic stability of a metal foam rectangular plate
D. Debowski, K. Magnucki and M. Malinowski
Abstract
The subject of the paper is an isotropic metal foam rectangular plate. Mechanical properties of
metal foam vary continuously through plate of the thickness. A nonlinear hypothesis of deformation of plane
cross section is formulated. The system of partial differential equations of the plate motion is derived on the
basis of the Hamilton\'s principle. The system of equations is analytically solved by the Bubnov-Galerkin
method. Numerical investigations of dynamic stability for family rectangular plates with respect analytical
solution are performed. Moreover, FEM analysis and theirs comparison with results of numerical-analytical
calculations are presented in figures.
Key Words
metal foam plate; dynamic stability; elastic buckling; shear effect.
Address
D. Debowski: Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Machine Operation, University of Zielona Gora, ul. Podgorna 50, PL. 65-246 Zielona Gora, Poland
K. Magnucki: Institute of Applied Mechanics, Poznan University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 3, PL. 60-965 Poznan, Poland
M. Malinowski: Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Machine Operation, University of Zielona Gora, ul. Podgorna 50, PL. 65-246 Zielona Gora, Poland