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Vibrations of Thick Rotating Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells

This document summarizes a research article about analyzing vibrations of thick rotating laminated composite cylindrical shells. The researchers established governing equations based on first order shear deformation shell theory to calculate natural frequencies. They obtained analytical solutions and presented numerical results, comparing with prior literature. Additionally, they investigated frequency characteristics with respect to rotating speed, circumferential wave number, and thickness/length ratio to analyze behaviors of thin and thick shells.

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Vibrations of Thick Rotating Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells

This document summarizes a research article about analyzing vibrations of thick rotating laminated composite cylindrical shells. The researchers established governing equations based on first order shear deformation shell theory to calculate natural frequencies. They obtained analytical solutions and presented numerical results, comparing with prior literature. Additionally, they investigated frequency characteristics with respect to rotating speed, circumferential wave number, and thickness/length ratio to analyze behaviors of thin and thick shells.

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Journal of Sound and <ibration (1999) 225(3), 483}501

Article No. jsvi.1999.2205, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on

VIBRATIONS OF THICK ROTATING LAMINATED


COMPOSITE CYLINDRICAL SHELLS
K. Y. LAM AND WU QIAN
Institute of High Performance Computing, 89B Science park Drive,
d01-05/08 the Rutherford, Singapore Science Park 1, Singapore 118261, Singapore
(Received 23 July 1998, and in ,nal form 20 January 1999)
Free vibrations of thick rotating cross-ply laminated composite cylindrical shells
are studied based on the "rst order shear deformation shell theory (FSDT). The
governing equations of "ve degrees of freedom with consideration of Coriolis
accelerations and rotary inertias are established. Analytical solutions to the
equations are obtained to calculate the frequencies of the shells. Numerical results
are presented and compared with those available in the literature. In addition,
frequency characteristics of thin and thick shells are investigated with respect to the
variations of rotating speeds, circumferential wave numbers, and length and
thickness ratio.
( 1999 Academic Press

1. INTRODUCTION

The dynamic behavior of thin rotating shells has been studied for over a century.
Analytical techniques have remained to be developed on the basis of classical thin
shell theories for a long time, which assume that straight lines normal to the middle
surface before deformation remain straight, inextensible and normal to the middle
surface after deformation. Transverse shear and transverse normal e!ects have been
neglected. There are a substantial number of books and papers on this subject
[1}4].
Recently, with the development of aerospace technology, attention has been
drawn to the theoretical development of thick shells and composite laminated
shells. Researchers have found that application of classical thin shell theory to
laminated thick shells could lead to as much as 30% or more errors in natural
frequencies [5]. The accuracy of classical thin shell theory is thus not su$cient
when applied to thick shells. The modern use of laminated composite thick shells
and the inaccuracy of classical thin shell theory have prompted researchers to
develop new theories to calculate frequency characteristics of thick shells.
In the literature, analyses of composite shells are carried out on the basis of twodimensional (2-D) shear deformation laminate theories, layerwise theories and
numerical methods. Barbero and Reddy [6] developed a general 2-D theory of
laminated cylindrical shells. The theory accounts for a desired degree of
approximation of the displacements through the thickness. Voyiadjis and Shi [7]
0022-460X/99/330483#19 $30.00/0

( 1999 Academic Press

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