TY - GEN digital ID - 131675847 TI - The Bending Theory of Fully Nonlinear Beams AU - Tarantino, Angelo Marcello AU - Lanzoni, Luca AU - Falope, Federico Oyedeji PY - 2019 SN - 9783030146764 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Numerical analysis KW - Mathematics KW - Classical mechanics. Field theory KW - Applied physical engineering KW - toegepaste mechanica KW - economie KW - wiskunde KW - mechanica KW - numerieke analyse UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131675847 AB - This book presents the bending theory of hyperelastic beams in the context of finite elasticity. The main difficulties in addressing this issue are due to its fully nonlinear framework, which makes no assumptions regarding the size of the deformation and displacement fields. Despite the complexity of its mathematical formulation, the inflexion problem of nonlinear beams is frequently used in practice, and has numerous applications in the industrial, mechanical and civil sectors. Adopting a semi-inverse approach, the book formulates a three-dimensional kinematic model in which the longitudinal bending is accompanied by the transversal deformation of cross-sections. The results provided by the theoretical model are subsequently compared with those of numerical and experimental analyses. The numerical analysis is based on the finite element method (FEM), whereas a test equipment prototype was designed and fabricated for the experimental analysis. The experimental data was acquired using digital image correlation (DIC) instrumentation. These two further analyses serve to confirm the hypotheses underlying the theoretical model. In the book’s closing section, the analysis is generalized to the case of variable bending moment. The governing equations then take the form of a coupled system of three equations in integral form, which can be applied to a very wide class of equilibrium problems for nonlinear beams. ER -