Experimental validation of rigid-flexible coupling dynamic formulation for hub–beam system

The aim of this paper is to compare the accuracy of the absolute nodal coordinate formulation and the floating frame of reference formulation for the rigid-flexible coupling dynamics of a three-dimensional Euler–Bernoulli beam by numerical and experimental validation. In the absolute nodal coordinate formulation, based on geometrically exact beam theory and considering the torsion effect, the material curvature of the beam is derived, and then variational equations of motion of a three-dimensional beam are obtained, which consist of three position coordinates, two slope coordinates, and one rotational coordinate. In the floating frame of reference formulation, the displacement of an arbitrary point on the beam is described by the rigid-body motion and a small superimposed deformation displacement. Based on linear elastic theory, the quadratic terms of the axial strain are neglected, and the curvatures are simplified to the first order. Considering both the linear damping and the quadratic air resistance damping, the equations of motion of the multibody system composed of air-bearing test bed and a cantilevered three-dimensional beam are derived based on the principle of virtual work. In order to verify the results of the computer simulation, two experiments are carried out: an experiment of hub–beam system with large deformation and a dynamic stiffening experiment. The comparison of the simulation and experiment results shows that in case of large deformation, the frequency result obtained by the floating frame of reference formulation is lower than that obtained by the experiment. On the contrary, the result obtained by the absolute nodal coordinate formulation agrees well with that obtained by the experiment. It is also shown that the floating frame of reference formulation based on linear elastic theory cannot reveal the dynamic stiffening effect. Finally, the applicability of the floating frame of reference formulation is clarified.

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