Nonlinear beam-type vibrations of long cylindrical shells (Q1820001)

This paper presents a closed-form solution of the problem of free beam- type vibration of a long cylindrical shell subject to uniform axial tensor, uniform internal pressure, and elastic axial restraint. The shell is assumed to be clamped at the ends. The bending moment-curvature relationship employed in this paper is nonlinear due to the effect of ovalization (flattening) of initially circular cross sections. Another nonlinear effect taken into account is the stretching of the shell axis which is caused by the axial restraint. The analysis results in a cubic differential equation; the frequency of the solution of this equation is found exactly using elliptic integrals.