Bending of thick beams of bimodulus materials

The literature on bending of beams made of bimodulus materials (which have one value of the elastic modulus in tension and another in compression) is limited. All of the works known to the present investigators are restricted to beams with natural boundary conditions and subjected to specific distributions of normal pressure only. In the present work, the transfer-matrix approach is used to determine the small-deflection static behavior of bimodulus beams, including transverse shear deformation. The neutral surface, i.e. the locus of points having zero axial normal strain, may vary linearly within each element. The effects of axial load and non-natural boundary conditions are considered. As a basis for comparative evaluation, exact closed-form solutions are also presented for special cases in which the neutral-surface location is constant along the beam axis. Results are compared between the two solution methods and are found to give good agreement.

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