Vibration characteristics of offshore cylindrical tanks (Q1187827)

The vibration characteristics of offshore cylindrical tanks are studied. This is a typical topic of liquid-shell interaction system. A general analytical method is presented by which the axial modal functions of liquid and shell are represented as the same complete orthogonal series for uncoupling the mode of liquid and shell. Simultaneously, the mode functions are expanded into a uniform convergence series and a linear polynomial, so that the problem of convergence and differentiation of mode series is solved.