On nonconservativeness of Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity in beam mechanics: correction from a discrete-based approach

By Noël Challamel, Zhen Zhang, Chien Ming Wang, J. Reddy, Quan Wang, Thomas M. Michelitsch, Bernard Collet. Archive of applied mechanics (1991), 2014

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In this paper, the self-adjointness of Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity is investigated based on simple one-dimensional beam models. It is shown that Eringen’s model may be nonself-adjoint and that it can result in an unexpected stiffening effect for a cantilever’s fundamental vibration frequency with respect to increasing Eringen’s small length scale coefficient. This is clearly inconsistent with the softening results of all other boundary conditions as well as the higher vibration modes of a cantilever beam. By using a (discrete) microstructured beam model, we demonstrate that the vibration frequencies obtained decrease with respect to an increase in the small length scale parameter. Furthermore, the microstructured beam model is consistently approximated by Eringen’s nonlocal model for an equivalent set of beam equations in conjunction with variationally based boundary conditions (conservative elastic model). An equivalence principle is shown between the Hamiltonian of the microstructured system and the one of the nonlocal continuous beam system. We then offer a remedy for the special case of the cantilever beam by tweaking the boundary condition for the bending moment of a free end based on the microstructured model.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials

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Nonlocal elasticity in nanobeams: the stress-driven integral model (2017, result): “Accordingly, the Green ’s function providing the averaging kernel of the convolution is independent of kinematic and static boundary conditions imposed on the structural model, contrary to statements in literature ( Challamel et al., 2014 ).”
Vibrations of Bernoulli-Euler beams using the two-phase nonlocal elasticity theory (2017, unknown): “…obtained from the Eringen diﬀerential model regarding a cantilever beam when compared to other boundary conditions, both for the static (Peddieson et al., 2003; Wang and Liew, 2007; Challamel and Wang, 2008; Wang et al., 2008; Challamel et al., 2014) and vibrational behaviour (Lu et al., 2006).”