A novel high-order accurate approach to the analysis of beam structures with bulk and thin-walled cross-sections is presented. The approach is based on the use of a variable-order polynomial expansion of the displacement field throughout both the beam cross-section and the length of the beam elements. The corresponding weak formulation is derived using the symmetric Interior Penalty discontinuous Galerkin method, whereby the continuity of the solution at the interface between contiguous elements as well as the application of the boundary conditions is weakly enforced by suitably defined boundary terms. The accuracy and the flexibility of the proposed approach are assessed by modeling slender and short beams with standard square cross-sections and airfoil-shaped thin-walled cross-sections subjected to bending, torsional and aerodynamic loads. The comparison between the obtained numerical results and those available in the literature or computed using a standard finite-element method shows that the present method allows recovering three-dimensional distributions of displacement and stress fields using a significantly reduced number of degrees of freedom.
High-order Accurate Beam Models Based on Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Aerotec. Missili Spaz.
Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio ; 102 , 4 ; 293-308
01.12.2023
16 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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