Vibration studies on moderately thick double-curved elliptic shallow shells (Q1817201)

Based on a refined first-order shear deformation theory, the vibratory characteristics of doubly-curved shallow shells of elliptical planform are investigated. Integral expressions incorporating the effects of shear deformation and rotary inertia for the strain and kinetic energies are derived. The transverse shear strain components are obtained as linear functions of thickness in contrast to constant strains available in the current literature. With the use of the extremum energy principle, a governing eigenmatrix equation is formulated which is subsequently solved to extract the frequencies and mode shapes. The shallow shells considered here are the spherical, cylindrical and hyperbolic paraboloidal shells. The effects of various geometric parameters and boundary constraints on the resonant frequencies and mode shapes are examined.