VIBRATIONS SHALLOW H.P. SHELL (II)

Free Vibrations of a Stiffened Cylindrical Shell

~This report presents the first stage of an investigation of the response to random noise of a stiffened cylinder, representing an aircraft fuselage, including an analysis of the lower modes of such a cylinder. Preliminary investigations suggested that assumptions and approximations which are valid for the uniform, i.e., unstiffened, shell are not necessarily valid for a shell with heavy stiffe...

Acoustic Vibrations in Nanosized Gold-Shell Particles

We demonstrate and discuss acoustic vibrations in spherical shell particles. The particles consist of 38-nm-thick gold shells, sandwiched between an inner silica core of 456 nm in diameter and an outer silica shell of 10 nm in thickness. Employing standard and asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS) ultrafast pump-probe experiments, we excite acoustic vibrations of the shells and detect the oscil...

A reduced constraint hp finite element method for shell problems

We propose and analyze an hp finite element method for the Nagdhi shell model, based on rectangular elements. We show that for the bending-dominated case, assuming sufficient smoothness on the solution, the method is locking free in terms of both h and p, as the thickness of the shell tends to zero. Our results are established under the assumption that the geometrical coefficients appearing in ...

Vibrations of Thin Piezoelectric Shallow Shells: Two-dimensional approximation

Lower dimensional models of shells are preferred in numerical computations to threedimensional models when the thickness of the shells is “very small”. A lot of work has been done on the lower dimensional approximation of boundary value and eigenvalue problem for elastic plates and shells (cf.[2], [3] [4], [5], [6], [8],[9]). Recently some work has been done on the lower dimensional approximati...

Normal vibrations of polyglycine II.