Abstract: This paper presents the random vibration analysis of a simply supported cylindrical shell under a ring load which is uniform around the circumference. The time history of the excitation is ...

Abstract: An analytical procedure employing the general theory of shells of revolution and finite element method is presented to examine the stress patterns along the convolution of the pipeline expansion ...

Abstract: A very computationally efficient numerical technique for the free vibration analysis of shells of revolution is presented in this study. The generic segment of the shell structure is given in ...

Abstract: A fully numerical and consistent method using the three-dimensional theory of elasticity is presented in this paper to study the free vibrations of an axially symmetric solid. The solid is ...

Abstract: The free vibrational characteristics of composite noncircular cylindrical shells are investigated in this paper. The shells are composed of layered media of different material properties. The ...

Abstract: This paper deals with a numerical method for the free vibrational analysis of laminated deep shells. The strain-displacement relations are obtained for a general laminated shell geometry described ...

Abstract: The applications of a Ritz-type numerical scheme, in which the displacement fields are prescribed by Bezier surface patches, are presented for the analysis of doubly curved laminated open panels. ...

Abstract: This paper presents a Ritz-type numerical scheme for the analysis of doubly curved laminated open panels. The fundamental strain-displacement relations and energy expressions are developed in ...

Abstract: A variational full-field method is presented in this paper for the free vibration analysis of open circular cylindrical laminated shells supported at discrete points. A differential equation in matrix form is developed ...

Abstract: Numerical studies of the free vibration analysis of open skewed circular cylindrical shells supported only on selected segments of the straight edges are presented in this paper. The uniform thickness shell geometry is ...