Abstract: This research introduces a new approach to analytically derive the differential equations of motion of a thin spherical shell. The approach presented is used to obtain an expression for the relationship between the transverse ...

Abstract: This research presents a study of the free vibration of thin, shallow elliptical shells. The equations of motion for the elliptical shell, which are developed from Love's equations, are coupled and nonlinear. In this ...

Abstract: While several numerical approaches exist for the vibration analysis of thin shells, there is a lack of analytical approaches to address this problem. This is due to complications that arise from coupling between the ...

Abstract: To cope with the challenges of market competition and the greater purchasing power of consumers, manufacturers have increased the variety of products they offer. Product families and reconfigurable manufacturing systems ...

Abstract: Decreasing product life cycles and reduced product development times have led to a need for new strategies for coping with the rapid rate of product family design changes. In this paper, assembly system reconfiguration ...