Eringen’s Stress Gradient Model for Bending of Nonlocal Beams
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 142, Issue 12
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the bending response of nonlocal elastic beams under transverse loads, where the nonlocal elastic model of Eringen, also called the stress gradient model, is used. This model is known to exhibit some paradoxical responses when applied to beams with certain types of boundary conditions. In particular, for clamped-free boundary condition, this nonlocal model is not able to predict scale effects in the presence of concentrated loads, or it leads to an apparent stiffening effect for distributed loads in contrast to other boundary conditions for which softening effect is observed. In the literature, these paradoxes have been resolved by changing the kernel of the nonlocal model or by modifying the standard boundary conditions. In this paper, the paradox is solved from the nonlocal differential model itself via some related discontinuous nonlocal kinematics. It is shown that the kinematics related to the nonlocal constitutive law lead to the use of moment or shear discontinuities. With such a nonlocal differential model coupled with the nonlocal discontinuity requirements, the beam effectively shows a softening response irrespective of the boundary conditions studied, including the clamped-free boundary conditions, and thereby resolves the paradox. The model is also compared to lattice-based solutions where an excellent agreement between the present nonlocal model and the lattice one is obtained. Finally, the stress gradient model is shown to be cast in a stress-based variational framework, which coincides with a Timoshenko-type model where the shear effect is shown to play the nonlocal role.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 142 • Issue 12 • December 2016
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Received: Feb 19, 2016
Accepted: Jul 5, 2016
Published online: Aug 9, 2016
Published in print: Dec 1, 2016
Discussion open until: Jan 9, 2017
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