关于应力刚度矩阵（stress stiffness matrix）

Stress stiffening (also called geometric stiffening, incremental stiffening, initial stress stiffening, or differential stiffening by other authors) is the stiffening (or weakening) of a structure due to its stress state. This stiffening effect normally needs to be considered for thin structures with bending stiffness very small compared to axial stiffness, such as cables, thin beams, and shells and couples the in-plane and transverse displacements. This effect also augments the regular nonlinear stiffness matrix produced by large strain or large deflection effects (NLGEOM,ON). The effect of stress stiffening is accounted for by generating and then using an additional stiffness matrix, hereinafter called the “stress stiffness matrix”. The stress stiffness matrix is added to the regular stiffness matrix in order to give the total stiffness (SSTIF,ON command). Stress stiffening may be used for static (ANTYPE,STATIC) or transient (ANTYPE,TRANS) analyses. Working with the stress stiffness matrix is the pressure load stiffness, discussed inPressure Load Stiffness.

The stress stiffness matrix is computed based on the stress state of the previous equilibrium iteration. Thus, to generate a valid stress-stiffened problem, at least two iterations are normally required, with the first iteration being used to determine the stress state that will be used to generate the stress stiffness matrix of the second iteration. If this additional stiffness affects the stresses, more iterations need to be done to obtain a converged solution.
In some linear analyses, the static (or initial) stress state may be large enough that the additional stiffness effects must be included for accuracy. Modal (ANTYPE,MODAL), reduced harmonic (ANTYPE,HARMIC withMethod= FULL or REDUC on theHROPTcommand), reduced transient (ANTYPE,TRANS withMethod= REDUC on theTRNOPTcommand) and substructure (ANTYPE,SUBSTR) analyses are linear analyses for which the prestressing effects can be requested to be included (PSTRES,ON command). Note that in these cases the stress stiffness matrix is constant, so that the stresses computed in the analysis (e.g. the transient or harmonic stresses) are assumed small compared to the prestress stress.If membrane stresses should become compressive rather than tensile, then terms in the stress stiffness matrix may “cancel” the positive terms in the regular stiffness matrix and therefore yield a nonpositive-definite total stiffness matrix, which indicates the onset of buckling. If this happens, it is indicated with the message:“Large negative pivot value ___, at node ___ may be because buckling load has been exceeded”. It must be noted that a stress stiffened model with insufficient boundary conditions to prevent rigid body motion may yield the same message.

The linear buckling load can be calculated directly by adding an unknown multiplier of the stress stiffness matrix to the regular stiffness matrix and performing an eigenvalue buckling problem (ANTYPE,BUCKLE) to calculate the value of the unknown multiplier. This is discussed in more detail inBuckling Analysis

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