Study on free vibration of moderately thick orthotropic laminated shallow shells by boundary-domain elements (Q1816753)

A boundary integral equation formulation of free vibration of moderately thick orthotropic laminated shallow shells has been established by using the method of weighted residuals and the static fundamental solutions. The effects of neglecting the in-plane inertia and the rotatory inertia, singly and in combination, are also considered. The boundary integral equations are reduced to a standard algebraic eigenvalue problem by means of boundary-domain elements. Some numerical results are presented to demonstrate the correctness and accuracy of the method.