The dynamic stability of metallic and laminated cylindrical shells is investigated. The cylinders are geometrically imperfect and subjected to axial compression or pure bending moment. These loads are suddenly applied with constant magnitude and finite or infinite duration. The FEM is employed to generate dynamic responses and the equations of motion approach (Budiansky-Roth) to determine dynamic critical loads. The effects of load duration and imperfection amplitude on critical load are discussed. It is found that the dynamic critical loads decrease with increasing load duration and converge to those for the load case of infinite duration. The convergence rate is related to the fundamental frequency of the cylinder. In addition, both the static and dynamic critical loads decrease with increasing imperfection amplitude. (Author) Page 1 Downloaded by PURDUE UNIVERSITY on July 30, 2015 | http://arc.aiaa.org | 1. Abstract The dynamic stability of metallic and laminated cylindrical shells is investigated in this paper. The cylinders are geometrically imperfect and subjected to axial compression or pure bending moment. These loads are suddenly applied with constant magnitude and finite or infinite duration. The finite element method is employed to generate dynamic responses and the equations of motion approach(Budiansky-Roth) to determine dynamic critical loads. The effects of load duration and imperfection amplitude on critical load are discussed. It is found that the dynamic critical loads decrease with increasing load duration and converge to those for the load case of infinite duration. The convergence rate is related to the fundamental frequency of the cylinder. In addition, both the static and dynamic critical loads decrease with increasing imperfection amplitude.
IntroductionThe problem of dynamic stability of cylindrical shells has been carried out by many researchers and it encompasses many classes of problems and many physical phenomena.Parametric resonance or parametric excitation 1 ' 3 , pulse buckling 4 " 6 , and solidfluid interaction 7 represent but a few subjects of these studies. See, for example, the review papers by Svalbonas and Kalnins 8 , Hsu 9 , and Simitses 10 .The dynamic buckling of cylindrical shells subjected to suddenly applied axial compression of constant magnitude and infinite duration was first studied by Volmir" where a two-degree-of-freedom system was obtained by Galerkin's method. Roth and Klosner 12 applied the potential energy method and treated the problem as a four-degree-of-freedom system which they studied numerically. Using the same model and the Budiansky-Roth 20 criterion, Tamura and Babcock 13 presented the dynamic critical load of an imperfect thin circular cylindrical shell. Their analysis included the effect of axial inertia and of an attached mass on the loaded edge of the shell. Moreover, they provided results for L/R=2 and R/h=1000 and various values of the initial imperfection, which were experimentally obtained.Based on their work, Simitses 14 investigated the effe...