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Buckling of two-phase
inhomogeneous columns at arbitrary phase contrasts and volume
fractions
Mohammed G. Aldadah, Shivakumar I. Ranganathan and Farid H. Abed |
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Vol. 9 (2014), No. 5, 465–474
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Abstract |
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Buckling is an instability encountered in a wide variety of problems, both in engineering and biology. Almost all engineering structures are designed with adequate safety factors to prevent failure due to buckling, yielding or dynamic loads. In a classical sense, design for buckling is done by carefully controlling the modulus of elasticity, moment of inertia and the length of the structure. Further, such an approach assumes the material to be homogeneous and does not generally account for the microstructural details of the column. In this paper, we study the buckling of inhomogeneous columns with a two-phase checkerboard microstructure. Monte Carlo simulations are used to generate microstructures with arbitrary volume fractions and phase contrasts (ratio of the modulus of individual phases). An analytical form is obtained for the ensemble averaged critical buckling load based on the results of over 18,000 eigenvalue problems at arbitrary volume fractions, phase contrasts and distributions. Further, microstructural realizations that correspond to the highest buckling load (best design) and the lowest buckling load (worst design) are identified and the corresponding distribution of individual phases is determined. Finally, the statistical nature of the critical buckling load is discussed by computing the statistical moments that include the mean and coefficient of variation. |
Keywords
buckling, microstructure, column, inhomogeneous materials
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Milestones
Received: 6 February 2014
Revised: 24 May 2014
Accepted: 1 June 2014
Published: 14 December 2014
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Authors |
| Mohammed G. Aldadah | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering American University of Sharjah 26666 United Arab Emirates |
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| Shivakumar I. Ranganathan | |
| Department of Mechanical
Engineering Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ 08028 United States |
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| Farid H. Abed | |
| Department of Civil
Engineering American University of Sharjah 26666 United Arab Emirates |
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