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Vibration analysis of laminated conical shells with variable thickness

K.R. Sivadas, +1 more
- 08 Aug 1991 - 
- Vol. 148, Iss: 3, pp 477-491
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In this article, the effects of thickness variation on natural frequencies of laminated conical shells have been studied by using a semi-analytical finite element method, where Love's first approximation thin shell theory is used to solve the problem.
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This article is published in Journal of Sound and Vibration.The article was published on 1991-08-08. It has received 52 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shell (structure) & Radius.

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Nonlinear dynamics of heterogeneous shells. Part 2. Chaotic dynamics of variable thickness shells

TL;DR: In this paper, the nonlinear dynamics and stability of nonhomogeneous variable thickness axisymmetric shells are analyzed based on the Kirchhoff-love kinematic hypothesis and the resulting system of partial differential equations is reduced to an algebraic equations system by the Ritz method.
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A curved laminated orthotropic axisymmetric element based upon Flügge thin shell theory

TL;DR: In this paper, an isotropic thin shell axisymmetric element is extended to include the capability of modelling shells with a laminated orthotropic structure, based upon Flugge thin shell theory.
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The Dynamic Stability of a Laminated Orthotropic Truncated Conical Shell Under Time Dependent External Pressure

TL;DR: In this article, the dynamic stability of a laminated orthotropic truncated conical shell, subjected to an external pressure which is a power function of time, was considered and the modified Donnell-type dynamic stability and compatibility equations were obtained applying the Galerkin and Sachenkov and Baktieva (1978) methods.
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Free Vibration Analysis of Composite Conical Shells with Variable Thickness

TL;DR: In this paper, the free vibration of conical shells of variable thickness is analyzed under shear deformation theory with simply supported and clamped free boundary conditions by applying collocation with spline approximation.
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A semi-analytical method of free vibration of fluid loaded ring-stiffened stepped conical shell

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the motion differential equation of fluid loaded ring-stiffened stepped conical shell by using Flugge classical thin shell theory and equivalent method of ring stiffeners, in which force and moment of a ring stiffener is apportioned in the spacing.
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Free vibration of joined conical-cylindrical shells

TL;DR: In this paper, the free vibration analysis of joined conical-cylindrical shells is presented, where the governing equations of vibration of a conical shell, including a cylindrical shell as a special case, are written as a coupled set of first order differential equations by using the transfer matrix of the shell.
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Composite Material Mechanics: Structural Mechanics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the structural mechanics of composite materials, focusing on the macromechanical structural analysis of various structural elements, including response under conditions of stable static loading, buckling, and dynamics.
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Free vibration of a conical shell with variable thickness

TL;DR: In this paper, the free vibration of a truncated conical shell with variable thickness was analyzed by using the transfer matrix approach, and the effects of the semi-vertex angle, truncated length and varying thickness on the vibration were studied.
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Free vibrations of orthotropic sandwich conical shells with various boundary conditions

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of axisymmetric and unsymmetric free vibrations of conical or cylindrical shells with various boundary conditions is presented, where Love's first-approximation shell theory, with transverse shear strain added, was used and solutions were obtained by Galerkin's method.
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