Shear deformation in dynamic analysis of anisotropic laminated open cylindrical shells filled with or subjected to a flowing fluid (Q5944629)

The authors study free vibrations of anisotropic laminated, open or closed, cylindrical shells submerged in incompressible inviscid fluid. The approach is based on a refined shell theory in which transverse shear deformation and rotary inertia are taken into account. The authors solve the problem by a finite element method which employs a cylindrical panel-segment finite element, rather than commonly used triangular or rectangular elements. This allow to use thin shell equations for the determination of displacement functions, and hence to employ mass, stiffness and stress-resultant matrices instead of usual polynomial displacement functions.