Dynamic Response of Orthotropic Membrane Structure under Impact Load based on Multiple Scale Perturbation Method

This paper investigates the dynamic response of rectangular prestressed membrane subjected to concentrated impact load based on multiple scale perturbation method. The governing equations of motion of nonlinear vibration are derived based on the Föppl large deflection theory and Galerkin method. By introducing different time scales to consider the process of vibration, the results of dynamic response are obtained by applying the multiple scale perturbation method. Furthermore, the effects of pretension force, velocity of load and dimension of membrane on the dynamic response of membrane are discussed. The present work studies the problem of the dynamic response of prestressed membrane subjected to concentrated impact load in different time scales, and provides a more accurate theoretical model for design of membrane structure.


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In recent decades, the dynamic response of membrane structure under impact load has been widely investigated.Hallquist and Feng (1975) investigated the dynamic response of a uniform circular membrane subjected to a step pressure loading.The nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations were established by applying the principle of virtual work, and sought by the Rayleigh-Ritz method.The results are solved by an implicit Newmark time integration scheme with the Newton-Raphson iterative technique.K. Nagaya (1978) treated the problem of finding the response to dynamic loads of a membrane with arbitrary shape.The boundary condition was expanded into a Fourier series, and the general solution of motion equation was obtained by the Laplace transform.Haddow et al. (1992) considered the finite amplitude wave propagation in a circular isotropic membrane under a suddenly applied pressure.The governing equations in Lagrangian form were sought by the method of characteristics and a finite difference scheme.Kapoor et al. (2006) developed a finite element model of the flexible membrane structures to blast loads.Transient analysis was performed based on the Newmark method and Newton-Raphson method.Consequently, the displacement time histories and dynamic stresses were computed.Zheng et al. (2012) established the governing equations of vibration for orthotropic membrane under impact load based on the Föppl large deflection.The complex factors such as the geometrical nonlinearities, air damping and orthotropic property of material were considered.The equations were solved by applying the power series method and L-P/KBM perturbation method, and the results such as frequency and displacement time histories were obtained.Yang and Sultan (2016) introduced tensegrity-membrane systems, which were composed of bars, tendons and membranes, and studied the system dynamics based on the nonlinear finite element method.Simulations based on the dynamic relaxation technique were presented to understand the membrane behavior.
In a word, a variety of methods, such as point collocation method (Kolsti and Kunz, 2013), finite element method (Chakravarty, 2012;Aksoylar et. al, 2012), variation principle (Eshmatov, 2007), Rayleigh-Ritz (Belytschko and Lu, 1994), and perturbation method have been applied to investigate the problem of dynamic response of membrane structure under impact load (Liu et. al, 2010).These methods are all derived and applied based on a single time scale, which can be used to describe the progress of vibration in the faster time scale such as 1s, 2s, … However, the interaction time between the impact load and membrane is remarkably short, and it has a difficulty in evaluating the vibration during interaction using only one time scale.Thus, another time scale is needed to introduce to describe the progress of vibration during impact progress in the lower time scale such as 0.001s, 0.002s… Then, the analytical result obtained can achieve higher accuracy, and the improved algorithm can be applied in the field of design and maintenance (Greschik and Mikulas, 2012).
In this paper, the objectives are to study the dynamic response of the orthotropic membrane subjected to impact load using two time scales, and to propose a more accurate prediction method for estimating the dynamic behavior of membrane under impact load.The governing equations of motion are established based on the Föppl large deflection theory, and uncoupled by the Galerkin method.Then, the multiple scale perturbation method is applied to solve the uncoupled equations.Consequently, the analytical results of dynamic response are obtained.By comparing the theoretical results and experimental value, the theoretical model is validated.Furthermore, the effects of pa-Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505 rameters such as pretension force, velocity of load and dimensions of membrane on the dynamic response are discussed.

Formulation of the Problem
The loading configuration is illustrated in Fig. 1.The x -axis and y -axis are along the in-plane directions and z-axis is along the thickness direction.An orthotropic rectangular membrane of thickness h and area with the length of a and the width of b is prestressed bi-axially normal to each edge.The pretension force along the directions of x and y is 0x N and 0y N , respectively.
Then, the stretched membrane is subjected to uniform impact load.The impact load is represented by a pellet, which has the velocity of 0 v and the mass of M .The position of impact load is located at the point 0 0 ( , ) x y , and it can be expressed as : where: ( ) F t denotes the impact load; ( ) is the Dirac function.
The simply supported boundary can be described as: where: w is the deformation of out-plane on membrane; t is the time of dynamic response.
The membrane remains a plane before the impact load contacts.After the impact load contacts the membrane, the system formed by the load and membrane starts to move together.Therefore, the following initial conditions for the membrane: Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505 According to the momentum theorem, the relation between impact load and deformation of membrane can be expressed as:

Dynamic Governing Equations
According to the Föppl large deflection theory and D's Alembert's principle, the damped forced vibration motion equation and consistency equation of orthotropic membrane can be derived as: (, ,) where: 1 E and 2 E are Young's modulus in x and y direction, respectively; 0x

N and 0y
N are initial tension in x and y direction, respectively; x N and y N are additional tension in x and y direction, respectively; r is the aerial density of membrane; c is coefficient of damping; j is the stress function.
The stress functions are introduced as followings: The functions that satisfy the boundary conditions Eq. ( 2) are as (Eshmatov, 2007): and where: ( , ) mn W x y is the mode shape function; ( , ) mn x y f and ( ) mn T t are undetermined functions.
The mode shape function can be assumed as: Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505 where: m and n are integer, and denote the sine half-wave number in x and y , respectively.

Solutions of Governing Equations
Different from the only one time scale such as 1s, 2s, …, applied to solve the vibration problem (Nayfeh, 1981), this paper introduces another slower time scale such as 0.001s, 0.002s, …, and utilizes two time scales to solve the vibration problem based on the multiple scale perturbation method (Belytschko and Lu, 1994).The complex vibration problem can be handled more accurately by means of selecting two time scales.Besides the original scale 0 T t = , the other slower scale is introduced.Thus, the corresponding derivative can be obtained as: T t in terms of e as: By submitting Eq. ( 16) into Eq.( 14), one can obtain: Collect the same power of Eq. ( 17), and the simultaneous equations can be obtained as follows: The general solution of Eq. (18a) can be solved as followings: where: By submitting Eq. ( 19) into Eq.(18b), one can obtain: where: cc stands for the conjugate complex.
Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505 The Eq. ( 18b) belongs to a linear equation of forced vibration.Thus, the general solution of corresponding homogeneous equation is assumed as: In order to eliminate the singularity of equation, the general solution term and force term have to be orthogonal, namely, Furthermore, one can obtain as follows: Make the real and imaginary part be zero, respectively, and one can obtain: The solutions of Eq. ( 24) are as follows: Then, the solution of 1 u is as follows: By submitting Eqs. ( 19) and ( 26) into Eq.( 16), the displacement function is obtained as: Consider the initial condition as follows: where: 0 b and 0 v ¢ are initial displacement and velocity, respectively.
Based on the initial condition Eq. ( 28), one can obtain: Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505  29) into Eq.( 27), the displacement function varying with time is obtained as follows: By submitting Eq. ( 30) into Eq.( 7), the displacement function varying with time and space is obtained: The Eq. (31) presents the displacement-time relationship at any point during free vibration.By taking the first and second derivative of Eq. ( 31), the corresponding velocity and acceleration can be obtained.

VERIFICATION WITH AN EXISTING MEMBRANE EXPERIMENT
The experiment (Guo et. al, 2015) can be used to validate the analytical result.investigated the vibration of orthotropic rectangle membrane under impact load.The rectangle membrane, which has the plane dimension 1200 mm×1200 mm, was prestressed by the biaxial tensile stent.The tension in both directions was equal.The pretension force in the experimental scheme was divided into eight grades, followed by 1 kN, 2 kN, 3 kN, 4 kN, 5 kN, 6 kN, 7 kN and 8 kN.The Heytex membrane as a brand of membrane building material is selected.The density of the membrane is 0.95 kg/m 2 , and the thickness of the membrane is 0.8 mm.The material property of the membrane is orthotropic, which has the elastic modulus of 1720 Mpa along the warp direction and the elastic modulus of 1490 Mpa along the zonal direction.The impact load was simulated by a pellet.The radius of the pellet was 2.5 mm, and the mass of the pellet was 0.88 g.The vibration of membrane was collected and tracked by the noncontact laser displacement.
The comparison of displacement histories curves obtained from theory with that obtained from experiment was presented in Fig. 2.The vibration condition was that the membrane was subjected to the pellet with 10 m/s velocity as the pretension force was 1 kN, 3 kN, 5 kN and 7kN.It can be seen that the process of vibration calculated from the proposed theoretical model shows good con-Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505 sistence with that obtained from experimental measurement, which means that the theoretical model can describe the process of vibration accurately.In addition, Fig. 3 shows theoretical results and experimental data on the maximal amplitude of membrane under the pretension force of 3 kN.Compared with the theoretical results using single time scale (Liu et. al, 2013), namely KBM perturbation method, the theoretical results using two time scales in this paper, namely multiple scale perturbation method matches better with that obtained from experiment.As is expected, the results in zero order can achieve a high precision.

Effect of Pretension Force on Maximal Amplitude of Vibration
Fig. 4 presents the relationship between maximal amplitude and pretension force.It can be found that the theoretical results fit well with experimental data.As is shown, the maximal amplitude increases significantly with the pretension force increasing within the range of 4 kN pretension force.When the pretension force varies over 4kN pretension force, the maximal amplitude tends to stable, and the influence of pretension force on maximal amplitude becomes little.The reason for this phenomenon is that the rigidity of outside plane is provided by the pretension force on the boundary (Jenkins and Korde, 2006).The rigidity of outside plane increases with the pretension force increasing.Thus, the dynamic response of membrane including the maximal amplitude decreases accordingly.and Structures 14 (2017) 1490-1505 4.1.2Effect of Pretension Force on Maximal Velocity of Vibration Fig. 5 presents the relationship between maximal amplitude and pretension force.It can be found that the theoretical results fit well with experimental data.As is shown, the maximal amplitude increases significantly with the pretension force increasing within the range of 4 kN pretension force.When the pretension force varies over 4kN pretension force, the maximal amplitude tends to stable, and the influence of pretension force on maximal amplitude becomes little.The reason for this phenomenon is that the rigidity of outside plane is provided by the pretension force on the boundary.The rigidity of outside plane increases with the pretension force increasing.Thus, the dynamic response of membrane including the maximal amplitude decreases accordingly.

Effect of Pretension Force on Maximal Acceleration of Vibration
Table 1 lists the maximal acceleration at center point with different pretension force.By taking the second-order derivative of the Eq. ( 47), the theoretical result of acceleration can be obtained.Unlike the rules of velocity, the maximal acceleration increases obviously with the pretension force increasing.This can be explained that, the increasing pretension force leads to more and more localized vibration, which brings out the increasing maximal acceleration.Nevertheless, the increasing trend becomes slow gradually until stable.When the pretension force varies within 4 kN, the growth amplitude of maximal acceleration can reach 18.82 % averagely.Then, the growth amplitude drops into 8.54 % averagely with the pretension force over 4 kN.As a result, the dynamic response of membrane is more significant when the pretension force is in higher levels.Fig. 4 shows the maximal amplitude at center point under impact load with different velocity.The maximal amplitude increases about 64.6 % when the velocity of impact load rises from 5 m/s to 10 m/s.Then, the growth amplitude reaches about 200.1 % when the velocity of impact load rises from 5 m/s to 15 m/s.It is obvious that the effect of velocity of impact load on maximal amplitude is considerable.

Effect of Velocity of Impact Load on Maximal Velocity of Vibration
Fig. 5 compares the maximal velocity during vibration when the impact load is different.It can be found that the maximal velocity of vibration increases nearly linearly with the velocity of impact load becoming larger.This demonstrates that the velocity of impact load is the key factor on the maximal velocity of vibration.

Effect of Velocity of Impact Load on Maximal Acceleration of Vibration
Table 1 presents the maximal acceleration under impact load with different velocity.Similar to the rules of maximal velocity, the maximal acceleration increases almost linearly when the velocity of impact load becomes larger.The growth amplitude of acceleration between two adjacent pretension forces tends to be stable when the velocity of impact load is large.Fig. 6 compares the maximal amplitude of membrane with different dimension at center point.It can be seen that the maximal amplitude for square membrane with the dimension of 1200 mm×1200 mm is smaller than that for rectangle membrane with the dimension of 1200 mm×800 mm.In this occasion, the area is reduced about 33 %, and the growth amplitude of maximal amplitude of vibration is averagely 35.7 %.This is because the membrane impacted by impact load starts to vibrate.Meanwhile, the kinetic energy of impact load is transformed into potential energy of membrane by means of the deformation on outside surface.Then, the vibration continues for some time, and ends at last due to the damping.During this time, the transformation between kinetic energy and potential energy in membrane repeats along with process of vibration.The amplitude of vibration represents the potential energy.Consequently, when the vibration area of membrane is larger in same occasion, the potential energy per area is less, and the amplitude of vibration becomes smaller.

Effect of Dimension on Maximal Acceleration of Vibration
Fig. 8 shows the maximal acceleration of vibration at center point with different dimension.The maximal acceleration increases averagely 106.5 % along with the reduction of area, which reduces to 1200 mm×800 mm from 1200 mm×1200 mm.The growth amplitude is significant.This can demonstrate that the dimension of membrane affects the dynamic response rather obviously.

CONCLUSIONS
In this research, the dynamic response of membrane subjected to the impact load was studied.The vibration governing equations were derived by the Föppl large deflection theory, and simplified by the Galerkin method.Then, the multiple-scale perturbation method is applied to solve the simplified vibration equations by introducing different time scales.Consequently, the analytical solutions of dynamic response parameters, such as maximal displacement, amplitude, velocity, acceleration, were obtained.Some significant conclusions can be drawn as following:  •The theoretical model proposed can predict the dynamic response of the rectangular prestressed membrane subjected to concentrated impact load accurately. •When the pretension force varies within 4kN, the maximal amplitude of vibration reduces obviously with the pretension force increasing.However, when the pretension force exceeds over 4kN, the maximal amplitude tends to be stable with the increase of pretension force.Moreover, the increase of pretension force can lead to the local vibration.Thus, the maximal acceleration increases obviously. •The dynamic response of membrane is affected significantly by velocity of impact load.Each parameter increases almost linearly along with the increase of velocity of impact load.In addition, the reduction of dimension of membrane can increase the dynamic response rather obviously.

Figure 1 :
Figure 1: The rectangular membrane impact model.

Figure 4 :
Figure 4: Maximal amplitude of vibration at center point curves versus pretension force with different velocity of impact load.

Figure 5 :
Figure 5: Maximal velocity of vibration at center point curves versus pretension force with different velocity of impact load.

Figure 6 :
Figure 6: Maximal amplitude of vibration at center point curves versus dimension of membrane.

Fig. 7 Figure 7 :
Fig.7shows the maximal velocity of vibration at center point with different dimension.The maximal velocity of vibration increases obviously with the dimension reduces.The dimension of membrane reduces from 1200 mm×1200 mm to 1200 mm×800 mm, and the maximal velocity increases averagely 52.17 %.Similar to with the rules of amplitude, the reduction of vibration area causes the increase of potential energy per area and velocity during vibration.

Figure 8 :
Figure 8: Maximal acceleration of vibration at center point curves versus dimension of membrane.

Table 1 :
Verification in acceleration with different pretension force.
Effects of Dimension on Dynamic Response 4.3.1 Effect of Dimension on Maximal Amplitude of Vibration Latin American Journal of Solids andStructures 14 (2017) 1490-15054.3