Non-uniform warping including the effects of torsion and shear forces. Part II: Analytical and numerical applications

This two-part contribution presents a beam theory (BT) with a non-uniform warping (NUW) including the effects of torsion, and shear forces and valid for any homogeneous cross-section made of isotropic elastic material. In part I, the governing equations of the NUW-BT has been established and simplified-NUW-BT versions has been deduced, wherein the number of degrees of freedom is reduced. In this part II, these theories are used to analyze, for a representative set of cross-sections (CS) (solid-CS and thin-walled open/closed-CS, bi-symmetric or not), the elastic behavior of cantilever beams subjected to torsion or shear-bending. For bi-symmetrical-CS, torsion and shear-bending are analyzed separately: analytical and numerical results are given for the distributions along the beam axis of the cross-sectional displacements and stresses, for the NUW-BT and its simplified versions. Numerical results are also given for the three-dimensional stress distributions close to the embedded section: the stress predictions of the NUW-BT are compared to those obtained by three-dimensional finite elements computations. It can be drawn from all these results indications that can help to decide when the simplified theories may be applied, and hence when the warping parameters may be reduced. As specified in NUW-BT, torsion and bending are coupled for non-symmetrical-CS, even if the bending moments refer to the centroid while the torsional moment refers to the shear center. To illustrate this coupling effect, the particular example of the channel-CS presented in Kim and Kim [Kim, N.-I., Kim, M.-Y., 2005. Exact dynamic/static stiffness matrices of non-symmetric thin-walled beams considering coupled shear deformation effects. Thin-Walled Structures 43, 701–734.] is analyzed and the results are compared.