Interaction between flexible shells (plates) and a moving lumped body (Q2568314)

The dynamical problems of interaction between the flexible shells and moving bodies that the impact on elastic shells are expressed by the weight and inertial forces of the bodies moving on the studied shell like bodies such as, plates, cylindrical and spherical shells. Shell vibration with one- and two-sides moving lumped body constraints are considered. Corresponding boundary-initial value problems for the elastic shells are based on the geometrically nonlinear theory and the Kirchhoff-Love kinematic model. Numerical solutions are obtained by the Bubnov-Galerkin's method and a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Solving the Cauchy problem at each time the Gauss method is applied to get the solution of the derived systems of algebraic equations. Several examples illustrate the application of the proposed method in which the behaviour of the dynamic stability loss of the thin elastic shells are discussed.