Free Vibrations of Transversely Isotropic Hollow Cylinders

An asymptotic process for evaluating the frequencies of free axisymmetric vibrations of transversely isotropic hollow cylinders is proposed. This process is developed in detail for a cylinder with hinge-supported ends and free lateral surfaces. The approaches which make it possible to construct algorithms for identifying their natural frequencies within the given interval are tested on model problems. The results from the Kirchhoff-Love and Ambartsumyan theories are compared with those from the 3D elasticity theory. In the first term of an asymptotic expansion, two frequencies coinciding with those obtained using the applied shell theory are found and a countable set of frequencies absent in this theory is determined.     

The vibrations of a thin elastic orthotropic circular cylindrical shell with free and hinged edges

The problem of the existence of natural oscillations of a thin elastic orthotropic circular closed cylindrical shell with free and hinge-mounted ends and of an open cylindrical shell with free and hinge-mounted edges, when the two boundary generatrices are hinge-mounted is investigated. Dispersion equations and asymptotic formulae for finding the natural frequencies of possible vibration modes are obtained using the system of equations corresponding to the classical theory of orthotropic cylindrical shells. A mechanism is proposed by means of which the vibrations can be separated into possible types. Approximate values of the dimensionless characteristic of the natural frequency and the attenuation characteristic of the corresponding vibration modes are obtained using the examples of closed and open orthotropic cylindrical shells of different lengths.     

Numerical analysis of free vibrations of laminated composite conical and cylindrical shells: Discrete singular convolution (DSC) approach

A numerical study on the free vibration analysis for laminated conical and cylindrical shell is presented. The analysis is carried out using Love's first approximation thin shell theory and solved using discrete singular convolution (DSC) method. Numerical results in free vibrations of laminated conical and cylindrical shells are presented graphically for different geometric and material parameters. Free vibrations of isotropic cylindrical shells and annular plates are treated as special cases. The effects of circumferential wave number, number of layers on frequencies characteristics are also discussed. The numerical results show that the present method is quite easy to implement, accurate and efficient for the problems considered.     

Small free vibrations of an infinite cylindrical shell rotating on rollers

Small free vibrations of an infinitely long rotating cylindrical shell being in contact with rigid cylindrical rollers are considered. A system of linear differential equations for the vibrations of such a shell is derived. By using the Fourier transform of the solutions in the circumferential coordinate, a system of algebraic equations for approximately determining the vibration frequencies and mode shapes is obtained. It is shown that, for any number n of uniformly distributed rollers, the approximate values of the first n frequencies and mode shapes can be found explicitly. On the basis of the orthogonal sweep method, an algorithm for numerically solving the boundary value eigenvalue problem describing the vibrations of a rotating shell is developed. Analytical and numerical results are compared. The obtained approximate formulas for frequencies and the numerical algorithm can be used to design centrifugal concentrators for ore enrichment.     

Vibrations of thin cylindrical shells with a periodic structure

Free vibrations of thin linear–elastic Kirchhoff–Love cylindrical shells, having a periodic structure along one direction tangent to the shell midsurface, is considered. In order to take into account the effect of the periodicity cell size in this problem, a new averaged non–asymptotic model of such shells, proposed by Tomczyk (2006), is applied. The new additional higher–order free vibration frequencies dependent on the microstructure size will be derived and discussed. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Asymptotic solutions of non-classical boundary-value problems of the natural vibrations of orthotropic shells

The natural vibrations of orthotropic shells are considered in a three-dimensional formulation for different versions of the boundary conditions on the faces: rigid clamping rigid clamping, rigid clamping free surface, and mixed conditions. Asymptotic solutions of the corresponding dynamic equations of the three-dimensional problem of the theory of elasticity are obtained. The principal values of the frequencies of natural vibrations are determined. It is shown that three types of natural vibrations occur in the shell: two shear vibrations and a longitudinal vibration, which are due solely to the boundary conditions on the faces. It is proved that each boundary layer has its own natural frequency. The boundary-layer functions are determined and the rates at which they decrease with distance from the faces inside the shell are established.     

Free nonlinear vibrations of statically loaded long cylindrical shells

Summary Large-amplitude global free vibration of a long cylindrical shell resting on an elastic foundations is considered. The shell is initially loaded by uniform static transverse forces.Both the static deflections of the shell and the nonlinear vibrations superimposed on static equilibrium are considered using nonlinear theory. Numerical analysis elucidates the effect of different parameters on vibrations.The version of this paper was presented at the Twentieth Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, August 31–Sept. 2, 1987.     

Eigenfrequencies of radial vibrations of a spherical sandwich shell

Free across-the-thickness vibrations of a closed spherical shell consisting of three rigidly connected layers with arbitrary physical constants and thicknesses are studied. A closed-form solution in displacements to a one-dimensional (along the radius) vibration problem for a homogeneous spherical shell is derived and then used in posing a boundary-value problem on free vibrations of a heterogeneous sphere. Based on the degeneration of the sixth-order determinant of a system of homogeneous equations satisfying the corresponding boundary conditions, a transcendental equation for eigenfrequencies is found. Transformation variants for the equation of eigenfrequencies in the cases of degeneration of physical and geometric parameters of the compound shell are considered. The main attention in investigating the lowest frequency is given to its dependence on the structure of shell wall, whose parameters greatly affect the calculated values of the high-frequency vibration spectrum of the shell. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 839–852, November–December, 2008.     

Some optimal and inverse problems for orthotropic noncircular cylindrical shells

In this paper, we consider problems of optimal control involving stressed or strained states of orthotropic, noncircular cylindrical shells. It is assumed that the thickness of the shell is variable. The thickness and the radius of curvature of the directrix of the shell are assumed to be the controls. Existence of solutions for the optimal control problems considered is shown. In particular, existence of solutions for the problem of the minimal weight shell and the problem of nearest-to-equal-strength shell is shown. We present results on the approximation of the optimal control problems by a sequence of finite-dimensional problems, which may be reduced to nonlinear programming problems.     

A triangular shell element for vibration analysis of cambered and twisted fan blades

A ten-node triangular shell element of thirty degrees of freedom was successfully developed and applied to plate and shell static analysis, and free vibrations of rectangular plates with different boundary conditions. The element is also suitable for the vibration analysis of pretwisted and cambered fan blades. Natural frequencies of cambered and untwisted fan blades having a rectangular planform with constant thickness are determined for different shallowness ratio and blade thickness. For different blade-tip twist angles, the element can be applied to obtain the frequencies of twisted blades with constant thickness. Frequencies, resulting from the applied element, are compared to those of experimental results which are available in literature, and to those of shallow shell theory and other finite elements. Good correlations and reasonably accurate results are obtained by using a coarse mesh size.     

Numerical stability for a dynamic Naghdi shell

We consider an elastic model for a shell incorporating shear, membrane, bending and dynamic effects. We make use of the theory proposed by Arnold and Brezzi [1] based on a locking free non-standard mixed variational formulation. This method is implemented in terms of the displacement and rotation variables as the minimization of an altered energy functional. We extend this theory to the shell vibrations problem and establish optimal error estimates independent of the thickness, thereby proving that shear and membrane locking is avoided. We study the numerical stability both in static and dynamic regimes. The approximation schemes are tested on specific examples and the numerical results confirm the estimates obtained from theory.     

An asymptotic calculation of the vibrations of a viscoelastic cylinder with a slowly varying internal boundary

The vibrational problem is considered for a long hollow viscoelastic cylinder with a variable internal boundary, this being enclosed in an elastic shell. An asymptotic method based on averaging is used to find the resonant vibrations in response to a small uniformly distributed internal pressure that varies periodically with time. The calculation is carried through to quadrature working formulas.Moscow Institute of Electric Machine Construction. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 935–939, September–October, 1973.     

Free vibrations of thick layered cylindrical shells

Two approaches to the calculation of closed thick layered cylindrical shells are developed. They are based on division of the cylindrical shell across its thickness by concentric circumferential surfaces into a series of constituent cylindrical shells. Satisfying the contact conditions on the surfaces between constituent shells, it is possible to determine the frequency of free bending vibrations of the initial shell with a sufficient accuracy. In the first approach, the distribution of unknown functions across the shell thickness is sought on the basis of an analytical solution to the corresponding system of differential equations; in the second one, the distribution is assigned by polynomial approximation functions.     

Nonlinear free dynamic response of laminated compressible cylindrical shell panels

The governing equations for a free dynamic response of a symmetrically laminated composite shell are used to analyze a nonlinear differential panel. The FEM and the Lindstedt–Poincare perturbation technique are invoked to construct a uniform asymptotic expansion of the solution to a nonlinear differential equation ofmotion. A comparison between numerical and finite-element methods for analyzing a symmetrically laminated graphite/epoxy shell panel is performed to show that the nonlinearities are of hardening type and are more repeated for smaller opening angles. It is also shown that large-amplitude motions are dominated by lower modes.     

Axisymmetric vibrations of an orthotropic non-uniform cylindrical shell

The axisymmetric vibrations of a circular cylindrical shell of constant thickness, orthotropic along the principal geometrical directions and non-uniform along the generatrices, are considered. It is shown, using a particular problem as an example, that the non-uniform physical-mechanical characteristics of the shell material may lead to qualitatively new results in problems of shell dynamics.     

Asymptotic analysis of three-dimensional dynamic equations of a thin plate : PMM vol. 38, n 6, 1974, pp. 1072–1078

Two-dimensional dynamic equations of thin plate vibrations are obtained from the three-dimensional dynamic equations of elasticity theory on the basis of an asymptotic method [1 – 3], Such an approach permits establishing the limits of applicability of the two-dimensional dynamic equations and the corresponding boundary and initial conditions, and indicating the means of obtaining refined results.The question of the construction of an inner state of stress of a thin plate under dynamic conditions is examined herein. The possibility of considering states of stress with distinct variability in time and in the coordinates and with a distinct relationship between the displacement intensities, is taken into account.     

Sommerfeld-type conditions and uniqueness of the solution of exterior problems of the theory of elastic vibrations of aneotropic media : PMM vol. 43, no. 6, 1979, pp. 1102–1110

Steady vibrations of unbounded elastic anisotropic media are considered in three dimensions in the general case of 21 elastic constants. The problem is posed of extracting a single solution, defined in the whole space, of a system of elliptic equations for the stationary part of the displacement. The asymptotic of the fundamental solution is investigated at infinity and radiation conditions are determined which go directly over into the Sommerfeld conditions when going over to isotropic media. A uniqueness theorem is formulated for the inhomogeneous problem in unbounded domains.     

正交各向异性旋转扁壳的非线性振动*

本文提出一种时间模态假设,由此导出描述圆柱正交各向异性薄扁球壳和锥壳非线性轴对称自由振动的非线性耦合的代数和微分特征值方程组.我们求出了该方程组的近似解析解,并获得壳体振动的幅频响应关系的渐近展开式.文中还讨论了壳体的几何及材料参量对其振动性态的影响.     

On the investigation of free vibrations of nonthin cylindrical shells of variable thickness by the spline-collocation method

For determining the dynamic characteristics of free vibrations of circular unclosed cylindrical shells of variable thickness in two coordinate directions, we have used the spline-collocation method together with the method of discrete orthogonalization. The problem has been solved within the framework of the refined Timoshenko–Mindlin theory. We have also investigated the influence of different laws of change in the shell thickness on the character of its natural vibrations. Our calculations have been carried out for different geometrical and elastic parameters of the shell under study and different boundary conditions.