Vibrations of Cylindrical Shells Filled with a Liquid

The paper reports on experimental results for a dynamic system of two identical shells filled with a liquid and placed on a common elastic foundation. It is established that vibrations excited in one of the shells synchronize the vibrations of the whole system     

Vibrations of a Cylindrical Shell Filled with a Liquid

The concurrent effect of a harmonic excitation and an airflow on the vibrations and vibroaccelerations of a thin-walled cylindrical shell filled with a liquid is studied     

Natural Vibrations of a Cylindrical Shell Reinforced with Two-Layer Rings

The vibrations of a cylindrical shell reinforced with ring ribs attached to the shell by means of elastic elements are studied. The problem is solved by the finite-element method. The shell and ribs are modelled by a plane four-node finite element, which is a combination of a four-node plane stress element and a four-node flexural element. The effect of the stiffness of the elastic elements on the natural frequencies and modes is examined __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 105–110, August 2005.     

Forced Nonlinear Vibrations of Cylindrical Shells Filled with a Liquid

Forced nonlinear vibrations of cylindrical shells partially filled with a liquid are studied. The wave motions of the free liquid surface are taken into account. Regular periodic deformation modes of the shell are studied, and frequency ranges where these modes do not occur are determined     

Harmonic Vibrations of a Viscoelastoplastic Sandwich Cylindrical Shell

The free and forced harmonic vibrations of viscoelastoplastic sandwich shells are analyzed. An equation for approximate determination of the amplitudes of near-resonance vibrations is derived. As an example, the problem is solved for a sandwich circular cylindrical shell     

Forced Nonstationary Vibrations of a Sandwich Cylindrical Shell with Cross-Ribbed Core

The equations of nonaxisymmetric vibrations of sandwich cylindrical shells with discrete core under nonstationary loading are presented. The components of the elastic structure are analyzed using a refined Timoshenko theory of shells and rods. The numerical method used to solve the dynamic equations is based on the integro-interpolation method of constructing finite-difference schemes for equations with discontinuous coefficients. The dynamic problem for a sandwich cylindrical shell under distributed nonstationary loading is solved with regard for the discreteness of the core__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 60–67, February 2005.     

Heat Transfer of a Cylindrical Body with Catalytic Surface in Subsonic Nonequilibrium Air Plasma Flow

Fluid Dynamics - Steady-state subsonic flows of nonequilibrium air plasma past a cylindrical body with plane face and heat transfer are investigated under the conditions characteristic of testing...     

Nonlinear Vibrations of a Cylindrical Shell Containing a Flowing Fluid

The Bogolyubov-Mitropolsky method is used to find approximate periodic solutions to the system of nonlinear equations that describes the large-amplitude vibrations of cylindrical shells interacting with a fluid flow. Three quantitatively different cases are studied: (i) the shell is subject to hydrodynamic pressure and external periodical loading, (ii) the shell executes parametric vibrations due to the pulsation of the fluid velocity, and (iii) the shell experiences both forced and parametric vibrations. For each of these cases, the first-order amplitude-frequency characteristic is derived and stability criteria for stationary vibrations are established__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 75–84, April 2005.     

Chaotic Vibrations of a Cylindrical Shell-Panel with an In-Plane Elastic-Support at Boundary

This paper presents numerical results on chaotic vibrations of a shallow cylindrical shell-panel under harmonic lateral excitation. The shell, with a rectangular boundary, is simply supported for deflection and the shell is constrained elastically in an in-plane direction. Using the Donnell--Mushtari--Vlasov equation, modified with an inertia force, the basic equation is reduced to a nonlinear differential equation of a multiple-degree-of-freedom system by the Galerkin procedure. To estimate regions of the chaos, first, nonlinear responses of steady state vibration are calculated by the harmonic balance method. Next, time progresses of the chaotic response are obtained numerically by the Runge--Kutta--Gill method. The chaos accompanied with a dynamic snap-through of the shell is identified both by the Lyapunov exponent and the Poincaré projection onto the phase space. The Lyapunov dimension is carefully examined by increasing the assumed modes of vibration. The effects of the in-plane elastic constraint on the chaos of the shell are discussed.     

Dynamics of a Semi-Infinite Cylindrical Shell with a Liquid Containing a Vibrating Spherical Segment

A semi-infinite cylindrical shell filled with a perfect incompressible liquid is considered. A vibrating rigid spherical segment placed on the shell axis excites the shell. The Laplace equation is solved under appropriate boundary conditions on the spherical, cylindrical, and flat surfaces bounding the liquid. Possibility is used to reexpand a spherical harmonic function in terms of a system of cylindrical harmonic functions and vice versa. The potential constructed is used to compute the shell deflections and the liquid pressure and velocity.     

Free Vibrations of Cylindrical Shells with Non-Axisymmetric Mass Distribution on Elastic Bed

The free vibrations of circular cylindrical shells partiallyloaded by a distributed mass and rested on an elastic bed are studied in this paper. Both the mass-load and the elastic bed are assumed to be applied on limited arcs and with arbitrary distributions in circumferential direction,while they are considered to be uniformly distributed in longitudinaldirection on the entire shell length. Therefore, the problem is notaxisymmetric. The solution is obtained by using the development of theflexural mode shapes in a Fourier series, whose coefficients are determinedby rendering the Rayleigh quotient stationary, so a Galerkin equation isobtained. The proposed method is independent of the boundary conditionsat the shell ends. The results are satisfactorily compared to FEM results.Finally, the influence of the mass-load and of the bed stiffness on thenatural frequencies and mode shapes of a simply supported shell is shownand discussed.     

Natural Vibrations of Ribbed Cylindrical Shells with Low Shear Stiffness

A technique is proposed to determine the natural frequencies of rib-reinforced cylindrical shells with low shear stiffness. The equations of motion based on the Timoshenko model are used. The influence of the transverse shear moduli of the shell and ribs on the minimum natural frequencies and corresponding modes is studied by way of numerical examples. It is shown that the effect of the discrete ribs is different from that predicted by the classical theory of ribbed shells__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 66–74, April 2005.     

Attitude-Determination Problems for a Rigid Body

Algorithms are presented to solve some attitude-determination problems for a rigid body. Depending on the formulation of these problems, the attitude is determined by either a quaternion (the Rodrigues–Hamilton parameters) or the attitude matrix (the matrix of cosines). Emphasis is on nontraditional formulations. For example, the quaternion norm can no longer be constant in the algorithm for integration of kinematic equations. Nor are the statistical characteristics of measurement errors for separate coordinates of the vectors, which are observed in order to determine the attitude, assumed equal. The algorithm of joint operation of an inertial navigation system and a satellite radionavigation system is considered in detail, since here the attitude-determination problem may hold a central position     

On Multimode Nonlinear Vibrations of Filled Cylindrical Shells

A technique is proposed to study the multimode nonlinear vibrations of circular shells fully filled with a perfect incompressible liquid. This technique is used to study the basic laws of modal interaction at nonlinear, including sub-harmonic resonances