Harmonic Vibrations of Shells with Cutouts Under Kinematic Conditions at Their Periphery

Problems on harmonic vibrations of shells with openings are considered for the case where displacements and angles of turn are specified at their periphery. A technique for determination of the natural frequencies and modes of vibrations is stated. The technique replaces the unknown peripheral forces and moments by a system of local statically equivalent loads. The intensity of these loads is found from the boundary conditions at the opening periphery. The solutions of the equations of shell theory for local loads are constructed by expanding the sought-for quantities into series in terms of the natural modes of the shell without openings. The performance of the approach developed is illustrated by calculating the natural frequencies and modes of shallow shells with a rectangular planform and various Gaussian curvatures