Affiliation:
1. School of Civil Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China
2. Key Laboratory for Safety Control of Bridge Engineering, Ministry of Education and Hunan Province, China
Abstract
By applying two elastically supporting styles, the elastic supports beam (ESB) and elastic foundation beam (EFB) are proposed to simulate the underwater submerged floating tunnel (SFT) under hinged boundaries. Their equivalence is investigated through the frequencies/modes and forced responses caused by equidistant moving loads. The ESB model is built by regarding each tether as an elastic support and using the novel isolating/assembling technique between beam-segments and global tube, and the order of characteristic matrix for any number of intermediate elastic supports is reduced to 4 × 4. Then, the stiffness of all elastic supports and the uniformity/non-uniformity are well considered in the ESB model. The governing equations of the EFB model with a uniform linear elastic support are also given. The newly discovered results, which are verified by the finite element method (FEM), indicate the merging phenomena appear in the frequency spectrum in the ESB model. The equivalence holds for some uniform cases in the ESB model based on the peak values of responses by using the stiffness relationship and a correction coefficient, whereas the equivalence does not exist for the uneven case of elastic supports.
Funder
Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Science Fund of Hunan Province
Key Discipline Funds for Civil Engineering of Changsha University of Science and Technology
Natural Science Foundation of Changsha
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Aerospace Engineering,Automotive Engineering,General Materials Science