The Influence of Initial Stresses and Boundary Restraints on the Nonlinear Vibrations of Cylindrical Shells

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Evensen

Abstract A Rayleigh-Ritz procedure is used in conjunction with nonlinear shallow shell theory to study the influence of axisymmetric initial stresses on the nonlinear flexural vibrations of thin-walled cylindrical shells. A similar formulation is used to determine the effect of in-plane boundary conditions on the nonlinear vibrations. Both analyses make use of an assumed vibration mode which possesses a moment restraint at the edges of the shell. The results show that compressive initial stresses cause the vibrations to become increasingly nonlinear as buckling is approached. Initial tensile stresses generally cause the vibrations to become more nearly linear. In-plane restraints on the axial displacement at the ends of the shell have a hardening influence on the nonlinear behavior. This influence is most pronounced for vibration modes with high axial wave numbers. A study of the moment restraint at the boundary shows that for thin shells, the conditions of simple-support are closely approximated by the present analysis.

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Pellicano ◽  
Marco Amabili ◽  
Michael P. Païdoussis

Abstract The nonlinear vibrations of simply supported, circular cylindrical shells, having geometric nonlinearities is analyzed. Donnell’s nonlinear shallow-shell theory is used, and the partial differential equations are spatially discretized by means of the Galerkin procedure, using a large number of degrees of freedom. A symbolic manipulation code is developed for the discretization, allowing an unlimited number of modes. In the displacement expansion particular care is given to the comparison functions in order to reduce as much as possible the dimension of the dynamical system, without losing accuracy. Both driven and companion modes are included, allowing for traveling-wave response of the shell. The fundamental role of the axisymmetric modes, which are included in the expansion, is confirmed and a convergence analysis is performed. The effect of the geometric shell characteristics, radius, length and thickness, on the nonlinear behavior is analyzed.


Author(s):  
Lara Rodrigues ◽  
Paulo B. Gonçalves ◽  
Frederico M. A. Silva

This work investigates the influence of several modal geometric imperfections on the nonlinear vibration of simply-supported transversally excited cylindrical shells. The Donnell nonlinear shallow shell theory is used to study the nonlinear vibrations of the shell. A general expression for the transversal displacement is obtained by a perturbation procedure which identifies all modes that couple with the linear modes through the quadratic and cubic nonlinearities. The imperfection shape is described by the same modal expansion. So, a particular solution is selected which ensures the convergence of the response up to very large deflections. Substituting the obtained modal expansions into the equations of motions and applying the standard Galerkin method, a discrete system in time domain is obtained. Several numerical strategies are used to study the nonlinear behavior of the imperfect shell. Special attention is given to the influence of the form of the initial geometric imperfections on the natural frequencies, frequency-amplitude relation, resonance curves and bifurcations of simply-supported transversally excited cylindrical shells.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 346-358
Author(s):  
Fuchun Yang ◽  
Xiaofeng Jiang ◽  
Fuxin Du

Abstract Free vibrations of rotating cylindrical shells with distributed springs were studied. Based on the Flügge shell theory, the governing equations of rotating cylindrical shells with distributed springs were derived under typical boundary conditions. Multicomponent modal functions were used to satisfy the distributed springs around the circumference. The natural responses were analyzed using the Galerkin method. The effects of parameters, rotation speed, stiffness, and ratios of thickness/radius and length/radius, on natural response were also examined.


Author(s):  
Katsuhisa Fujita ◽  
Makoto Katou

The unstable phenomena of thin cylindrical shells subjected to annular axial flow are investigated. In this paper, the analytical model is composed of an elastic axisymmetric shell and a rigid one which are arranged co-axially. Considering the fluid structure interaction between shells and fluid flowing through an annular narrow passage, the coupled equation of motion is derived using Flu¨gge’s shell theory and Navier-Stokes equations. The unstable phenomena of thin cylindrical shells are clarified by using the root locus based on the complex eigenvalue analysis. The numerical parameter studies on the shells with a freely supported end and a rigid one, and with both simply supported ends, are performed taking the dimensins of shells, the characteristics of flowing fluid so on as parameters. The influence of these parameters on the threshold of instability of the coupled vibration between thin cylindrical shells and annular axial flowing fluid are investigated and discussed.


1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ŝ. Markuŝ

The governing differential equations of vibrations of double-layered cylindrical shells are derived from classical thinshell theory. The outer layer of the shell is assumed to be viscoelastic, possessing high damping capacity to control vibrations (loss factor, β = 0.3). Decoupled torsional and coupled radial-longitudinal vibration modes are analysed by the method of ‘damped normal modes’. The present theory refines Kagawa and Krokstad's former analysis (1)‡. The results obtained point to a strong dependence of mechanical losses upon the thickness-to-radius ratio, h1/ R, even in the case of axisymmetric modes. This phenomenon was not recognized in Kagawa-Krokstad's approach.


1962 ◽  
Vol 6 (03) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
James A. Nott

A theoretical derivation is given for elastic and plastic buckling of stiffened, circular cylindrical shells under uniform external hydrostatic pressures. The theory accounts for variable shell stresses, as influenced by the circular stiffeners, and critical buckling pressures are obtained for simple support conditions at the shell-frame junctures. Collapse pressures for both elastic and plastic buckling are determined by iteration and numerical minimization. The theory is applicable to shells made either of strain-hardening or elastic-perfectly plastic materials. Using the developed analysis, it is shown that a variation in stiffener size can change the buckling pressures. Test data from high-strength steel and aluminum cylinders show agreement between the theoretical and experimental collapse pressures to within approximately six percent.


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