Title :
Bending test for capturing the fractional visco-elastic parameters: Theoretical and experimental investigation on giant reeds
Author :
Cataldo, Erasmo ; Di Lorenzo, Salvatore ; Fiore, Vincenzo ; Maurici, Mirko ; Pirrotta, Antonina ; Valenza, Antonino
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ing. Civile, Ambientale, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Abstract :
In this paper attention is devoted on searching a proper model for characterizing the behavior of giant reeds. To aim at this, firstly, meticulous experimental tests have been performed in the Laboratory of structural materials of University of Palermo. Further, the novel aspect of this paper is that of using an advanced Euler-Bernoulli model to fit experimental data of bending tests. Such a model of continuum beam takes into account different constitutive laws of visco-elasticity, being real materials visco-elastic.
Keywords :
beams (structures); bending; viscoelasticity; Euler-Bernoulli model; bending test; continuum beam; experimental analysis; fractional viscoelastic parameters; giant reeds; structural materials; theoretical analysis; viscoelasticity; Data models; Force; Laplace equations; Materials; Mathematical model; Strain; Stress; Euler-Bernoulli beam; Experimental test; Fractional model;
Conference_Titel :
Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Catania
DOI :
10.1109/ICFDA.2014.6967408
