Abstract
The ideally straight hydraulic pipe is inexistent in reality. The initial curve caused by the manufacturing or the creep deformation during the service life will change the dynamic character of the system. The current work discusses the effect of the initial curve on the hydraulic pipe fixed at two ends for the first time. Based on the governing equation obtained via the generalized Hamilton’s principle, the potential energy changing with the height of the initial curve is discussed. The initial curve makes the potential energy curve asymmetric, but the system is always monostable. The initial curve also has very important influence on natural frequencies. It hardens the stiffness of the first natural mode at first and then has no effect on this mode after a critical value. On the contrast, the second natural frequency is constant before the critical value but increases while the height of the initial curve exceeds the critical value. On account of the initial value, the quadratic nonlinearity appears in the system. Forced resonance is very different from that of the ideally straight pipe under the same condition. Although the 2∶1 internal resonance is established by adjusting the height of the initial curve and the fluid speed, the typical double-jumping phenomenon does not occur under the initial curve given in the current work. This is very different from the straight pipe in the supercritical region. The work here claims that the initial curve of the hydraulic pipe should be taken into consideration. Besides, more arduous work is needed to reveal the dynamic characters of it.
The hydraulic system is an important part for machine, engine, airplane and many engineering machineries. It usually contains lots of pipes, which convey the hydraulic oil with high pressure and high speed. Under excitations and pulsating pressure or speed, the piping system may yield drastic vibration, which will damage the system. Hence, many scholars paid their attention to this field, including pipes in other field
For those curved pipes designed on purpose, the dynamic character is discussed based on the initial curve intrinsically. The early model of the semi-circular arc pipe conveying fluid was proposed by Che
Sinir investigated a slightly curved pipe with the SIN function shape in 201
The softening phenomenon also can be found for slightly curved beams. Oz et al. produced contributory work on this fiel
The current work tries to discuss the natural character and the resonance of the hydraulic pipe fixed at two ends. The 2∶1 internal resonance condition is given to test that whether the 2∶1 internal resonance would happen under the given initial curve proposed in the current work. The harmonic balance method together with the pseudo-arc-length method is used to solve the complex steady state response.

Fig.1 Schematic diagram of hydraulic pipe fixed at two ends
In ideal conditions, the pipe will be straight during the service life. But considering the manufacturing defect and the creep deformation, the pipe may have an initial curve. According to Ref.[
The bending deformation of the pipe is u(x, t). Thus, the kinetic energy of the pipe is
(1) |
where u is the lateral displacement along the pipe and Ap the cross section of the pipe. The kinetic energy of the hydraulic oil along the pipe is
(2) |
where Af denotes the cross section of the fluid. According to the Hamilton’s principle, the potential energy needs to be taken into consideration. Thus, the potential energy of the pipe is
(3) |
where
(4) |
and it is the strain of a micro-body along the x coordinate. Considering the virtual work of the uniformly distributed harmonic force along the pipe, the governing equation of the hydraulic pipe will be obtained as
(5) |
with the boundary condition
(6) |
where F0 is the amplitude of the excitation force and Ω the excitation frequency.
The Kelvin’s material derivative is used in the current work to describe the viscoelasticity of the pipe, which means the following equation needs to be substituted into
(7) |
where μ is the visco-elastic coefficient of the pipe.
At last, the governing equation is
(8) |
Based on
(9) |
The shape of it is given in

Fig.2 Initial curve of the slightly curved pipe

Fig.3 Potential energy changing with initial curve
By eliminating the excitation, the nonlinearity and the viscoelasticity in the governing equation, the natural frequencies can be obtained from the derived linear system. As a gyroscopic system, natural frequencies and resonance will be discussed based on natural modes of a static beam with fixed boundarie
(10) |
with the boundary value given below
(11) |
where ϕ is the natural mode and β the modal eigenvalue. Things different from Refs.[
As can be observed from



Fig.4 The first two natural frequencies changing with different parameters
As mentioned in Ref.[
The section above introduces the governing equation of the hydraulic pipe based on the initial curve, including the influence of it on the natural frequencies. In this section, the influence of the initial curve on the dynamic response will be discussed. Considering the nonlinearity may be strong, the harmonic balance method φ is used in the current work. The solution of the system is expressed as
(12) |
where is the mode of the static beam with the fixed restraint. The partial differential governing equation
(13) |
Substituting
As the governing equation contains the cubic nonlinearity, m in
All the natural modes of the static beam under the same restriction, the natural frequencies of the hydraulic pipe, the Galerkin truncation and the solution of the steady state response are carried out by the software MAPLE. The computational accuracy is set as 1
The viscoelastic coefficient μ is set to 5×1




Fig.5 Harmonic responses of the first mode




Fig.6 Harmonic responses of the second mode
For the harmonics on the first mode, the 2nd order harmonic has the same magnitude with the 1st order one. The vibrating energy is transmitted to the quadratic nonlinearity. It is strange that, the response of the 3rd harmonic has a resonance peak at the second order of natural frequency. On the contrast, the responses of the zero-drift, the 1st harmonic and the 2nd harmonic are tiny in the second natural frequency region.
The total response of the hydraulic pipe can be superposed by these harmonics together, including the spatial modes.

Fig.7 Total responses along the pipe
The work here investigated the force resonance under the 2∶1 internal resonance condition. The steady state response was solved out by the Harmonic balance method. Based on the discussions above, some conclusions were obtained.
(1) The initial curve hardens the stiffness of the first natural mode, which enlarges the first natural frequency and the critical fluid speed.
(2) The initial curve softens the nonlinear response. More harmonics are produced by the quadratic nonlinearity and the cubic nonlinearity.
(3) The 2∶1 internal resonance will not happen under the given shape in the current work, although the internal resonance condition and the quadratic nonlinearity occurs together.
Contributions Statement
Dr. MAO Xiaoye conducted the analysis, interpreted the results and wrote the manuscript. Miss XIAO Lu complied the mode and contributed data for the anaysis. Prof. DING Hu designed the supervised the study. Prof. CHEN Liqun contributed to the discussion and background of the study. All authors commented on the manuscript draft and approved the submission.
Acknowledgements
The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12002195), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No.12025204), the Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No.2019-01-07-00-09-E00018) and the Pujiang Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (No.20PJ1404000).
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no competing interests.
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