A bilateral relationship between stable profiles of pinned-pinned bistable shallow arches

Palathingal, Safvan and Ananthasuresh, GK (2018) A bilateral relationship between stable profiles of pinned-pinned bistable shallow arches. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES, 143 . pp. 183-193.

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Abstract

Arch-profiles in the two force-free stable equilibrium states of shallow bistable arches are related to each other. We derive a two-way, i.e., bilateral, relationship between stress-free initial profile and stressed toggled profile so that pinned-pinned bistable arches of arbitrary profiles can be efficiently analyzed and designed. The derivation relies on representing the initial and toggled profiles with two sets of mode weights corresponding to the buckling mode shapes of a pinned-pinned column. Furthermore, we prove that the fundamental mode weights should be non-zero for an arch to be bistable. The following corollaries arise from the aforementioned relation: (1) symmetry in initial and toggled profiles remains unchanged: (2) all the mode weights other than the fundamental mode weight have the same sign in both stable states; (3) magnitudes of corrugations in stable force-free arch-profiles are approximately equal. Derivations and proofs of the principal relationship and its corollaries as well as examples of analysis and design of bistable arches of arbitrary arch-profiles are presented in the paper. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belong to PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2018 15:47
Last Modified:	21 Feb 2019 08:54
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/60346

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