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Vibration of doubly-curved shallow shells

Acta Mechanica, 1996

This paper presents the free vibration of thin doubly-curved shallow shells of rectangular planform. The study covers wide combinations of free, simply supported and clamped boundary conditions. Both positive and negative Gaussian curvatures (spherical and hyperbolic paraboloidal shells resepectively) are considered. The pb-2 Ritz energy based approach, along with the in-plane and transverse deflections assumed in the form of a product of mathematically complete two-dimensional orthogonal polynomials and a basic function, is employed to model the vibratory characteristic of these shells. Numerical results have been established through convergence study and comparison with published data from the open literature. Extensive sets of new results for various ranges of aspect ratio, curvature ratio and x-and y-shallowness ratios have been presented for future reference.

Continuous element for vibration analysis of thick shells of revolution

Vietnam Journal of Mechanics, 2011

This paper presents a new numerical method: Continous Element Method (CEM) for vibration analysis of thick shells of revolution taking into account the shear deflection effects. Natural frequencies and harmonic responses of cylindrical and conical shells subjected to different boundary conditions obtained with this kind of formulation are in close agreement with finite element solutions. The main advantage is the reduction of the size of the model thus allows the high precision in the results for a large frequency range.

Large amplitude free vibration of orthotropic shallow shells of complex shapes with variable thickness

Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 2013

The present formulation of the analysed problem is based on Donell's nonlinear shallow shell theory, which adopts Kirchhoff's hypothesis. Transverse shear deformations and rotary inertia of a shell are neglected. According to this theory, the non-linear strain-displacement relations at the shell midsurface has been proposed. The validity and reliability of the proposed approach has been illustrated and discussed, and then a few examples of either linear or non-linear dynamics of shells with variable thickness and complex shapes have been presented and discussed.

A new simple method for shell vibration analysis with initial stress accounting

Procedia Structural Integrity, 2020

This paper presents a simple semi-analytical approach for free vibration of cylindrical shell with initial prestress based on equivalent load method and the Donell-Mushtari theory. In most practical applications, shells are subjected to static loadings causing internal stress field. The presence of such initial forces like internal pressure, axial force, centripetal force and torque moment significantly affects the natural frequency spectra. According to Calladin's equivalent load method initial stress field create additional curvatures and can be added as additional terms to the basic equations. The results of presented method agree well with experimental data found in the literature. Effects of elastic support stiffness, the shell length and radius to thickness ration on natural frequencies are investigated.

Vibration analysis of long cylindrical shells using acoustical excitation

Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2011

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Nonlinear Vibration of the Laminated Shallow Shells with Complex Planform

2011

Investigation method of free nonlinear vibration of laminated plates and shallow shells with an arbitrary plan form and different boundary conditions is proposed. The offered method is based on combined application of R-functions theory and variational methods. The passing to nonlinear system of the ordinary differential equations (NSODE) is connected with solving the sequence of the boundary problems in the domain of an arbitrary shape: linear vibration problem; sequence of problems of elasticity theory simulated by partial differential equations with special right part and corresponding boundary conditions. The variation method by Ritz together with R-functions theory is applied to solve foregoing boundary value problems. The final passing to NSODE is carried out by Galerkin procedure. The coefficients of the obtained NSODE are presented in explicit form and expressed through the double integrals of known functions for the cases of single-mode and multi-mode approximation. The following investigation of the obtained nonlinear ordinary differential equation or system is fulfilled by Rung-Kutt method. The proposed method is illustrated on specific examples and compared with another approaches.

A Triangular Shell Element Based on Higher-order Strains for the Analysis of Static and Free Vibration

Civil Engineering Journal, 2022

This research paper proposes a new triangular cylindrical finite element for static and free vibration analysis of cylindrical structures. The formulation of the proposed element is based on deep shell theory and uses assumed strain functions instead of displacement functions. The assumed strain functions satisfy the compatibility equations. This finite element possesses only the five necessary degrees of freedom for each of the three corner nodes. The element's displacement field, which contains higher-order terms, satisfies the requirement of rigid-body displacement. The element's performance is evaluated using various numerical static and free vibration tests for cylindrical shell problems, including an analysis of the effect of shell openings on natural frequencies. The results of the developed element are evaluated in comparison with published analytical and numerical solutions. The new cylindrical element's formulation is straightforward. Compared to the degenerate nine-node shell element and other elements, the results of the present element have shown excellent accuracy and efficiency in predicting static and free vibration of curved structures. This element only requires the use of very coarse meshes to converge. In addition, the triangular shape of this element is more advantageous than the quadrilateral shape when the geometric domain of the structure is deformed or complicated.

Vibration analysis of submerged thin FGM cylindrical shells

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 2013

This study gives a brief work on vibration characteristics of cylindrical shells submerged in an incompressible fluid. The shell is presumed to be structured from functionally graded material. The effect of the fluid is introduced by using the acoustic wave equation. Love's first order thin shell theory is utilized in the shell dynamical equations. The problem is framed by combining shell dynamical equations with the acoustic wave equation. Fluid-loaded terms are associated with Hankel function of second kind. Wave propagation approach is employed to solve the shell problem. Some comparisons of numerical results are performed for the natural frequencies of simply supported-simply supported, clamped-clamped and clamped-simply supported boundary conditions of isotropic as well as functionally graded cylindrical shells to check the validity of the present approach. The influence of fluid on the submerged functionally graded cylindrical shells is noticed to be very pronounced.