Please cite this article as: D.V. Dung, L.K. Hoa, A semi-analytical approach to analyze the nonlinear dynamic torsional buckling of stiffened FGM circular cylindrical shells surrounded by elastic medium, Appl. Math. Modelling (2015), doi: http://dx.
Abstract:This research presents a semi-analytical method to analyze the nonlinear dynamic behavior of FGM thin circular cylindrical shells surrounded by elastic foundations and under a time-dependent torsional load. Shell is stiffened by closely spaced orthogonal FGM stiffeners system which is attached to inner surface of shell. An elastic medium is assumed as twoparameter elastic foundation model proposed by Pasternak. Fundamental relations and governing equations for stiffened cylindrical shells are derived by using the Donnell shell theory with von Karman geometrical nonlinearity and the smeared stiffeners technique. Deflection function with three-term taking into account a nonlinear buckling shape, is chosen more correctly. Galerkin method is used. The critical dynamic torsional load is found by using fourth order Runge-Kutta method and Budiansky-Roth criterion. Carrying out some computations, effects of stiffener, foundations, material and dimensional parameters on the dynamic buckling behavior of shell have been studied.