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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2016, Vol. 17 Issue (4): 295-316    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A1500191
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Exact free vibration analysis of open circular cylindrical shells by the method of reverberation-ray matrix
Xiong-liang Yao, Dong Tang, Fu-zhen Pang, Shuo Li
College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
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Abstract  This paper is concerned with the free vibration analysis of open circular cylindrical shells with either the two straight edges or the two curved edges simply supported and the remaining two edges supported by arbitrary classical boundary conditions. Based on the Donnell-Mushtari-Vlasov thin shell theory, an analytical solution of the traveling wave form along the simply supported edges and the modal wave form along the remaining two edges is obtained. With such a unidirectional traveling wave form solution, the method of the reverberation-ray matrix is introduced to derive the equation of natural frequencies of the shell with different classical boundary conditions. The exact solutions for natural frequencies of the open circular cylindrical shell are obtained with the employment of a golden section search algorithm. The calculation results are compared with those obtained by the finite element method and the methods in the available literature. The influence of length, thickness, radius, included angle, and the boundary conditions of the open circular cylindrical shell on the natural frequencies is investigated. The exact calculation results can be used as benchmark values for researchers to check their numerical methods and for engineers to design structures with thin shell components.

Key wordsOpen circular cylindrical shell      Method of reverberation-ray matrix      Free vibration analysis      Donnell-Mushtari-Vlasov thin shell theory      Analytical wave form solution     
Received: 27 June 2015      Published: 05 April 2016
CLC:  O327  
  TB633  
  U663.2  
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Xiong-liang Yao, Dong Tang, Fu-zhen Pang, Shuo Li. Exact free vibration analysis of open circular cylindrical shells by the method of reverberation-ray matrix. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2016, 17(4): 295-316.

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