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On the moving loads problem in discontinuous homogeneous beams and layered beams with interlayer slip

This manuscript contains the main part of my research performed in this last triennium at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace and Materials Engineering, University of Palermo, and at the Department of Basic Sciences in Engineering Sciences (Unit of Applied Mechanics), University of Innsbruck, Austria. The research adheres to a common procedure of solving a scientistic problem. That is, introduction to the problem, selection of the mathematical and physical tools to model the problem, proposed solution, and numerical validation. The thesis proposes a novel modal superposition approach to the moving loads problem on discontinuous homogeneous beam and layered beam with interlayer…

Moving multi-loads problem in layered cracked beams with interlayer slip

2017

This contribution concerns the vibration response of layered cracked uniform beams with interlayer slip under moving multiple loads. Considering a linear constitutive relation between the horizontal slip and the interlaminar shear force, the Euler-Bernoulli hypothesis is assumed to hold for each layer separately. Modeling cracks as internal elastic rotational joints, related discontinuities of the response variables are treated by the theory of generalized functions. In this manner, exact eigenfunctions are derived from a characteristic equation built as determinant of 6x6 matrix, for any number of cracks. Building pertinent orthogonality conditions for the deflection eigenfunctions, the re…