Structures in the form of cylindrical ribbed shells and panels are widely
used in engineering and construction. The problem of the action of moving
loads on an infinitely long cylindrical shell, reinforced along the outer
surface with longitudinal stiffeners and containing a viscoelastic inertial
filler, is considered. The moving load is transferred to the shell only
through the ribs, and there is no load outside the ribs. The discreteness of
the location of the ribs is taken into account by writing the equations of
motion of the beams, followed by the satisfaction of the conjugation
conditions. The influence of the number and stiffness of ribs on the nature
of the distribution of shell displacements and contact pressure at the
boundary of a viscoelastic filler is shown. The movement of the shell is
described by classic equations based on the Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis; for
the filler, dynamic equations of the theory of visco-elasticity are used. It
has been established that the reinforcement of shells with longitudinal ribs
(oscillations of a cantilevered cylindrical shell) leads to a decrease in
natural frequencies and damping coefficients in some shells, an increase in
the density of the spectrum of natural frequencies, and the appearance of
intermediate forms and forms with the same wave numbers, but with different
frequencies. External forces increase natural frequencies and damping
coefficients. It is found that the frequencies for the inner edges are lower
than for the outer edges. In the high-frequency zone, any efforts reduce the
natural frequencies and the damping coefficient. This means that additional
mass plays a more significant role than additional rigidity. Consequently,
the longitudinal strengthening of the shell worsens its dynamic properties.