Dynamic Response of a Cylindrical shell to a Concentrated Periodical Force : 1st Report, Displacement Response

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the study of the dynamic behavior of a cylindrical shell subjected to a concentrated periodical force acting at a certain point on cylinder surface. The interesting phenomena observed in the free vibration analysis of the cylindrical shell are confirmed from the standpoint of the forced vibration due to a concentrated force with wide applications and it is also pointed out that there may occur some peculiar phenomena in the forced vibration. In this paper the fundamental equations of vibration of a cylindrical shell including the in-plane inertia are described for the three theories based on Mizoguchi, Flugge and Donnell, and the displacement response is compared by those theories, in addition to the theory neglecting the in-plane inertia.