Free Vibration Analysis of Laminated Stiffened Shells
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 131, Issue 1
Abstract
The free vibration of the laminated composite anticlastic doubly curved stiffened shells is investigated using the finite element method. The stiffened shell element is obtained by appropriate combination of the nine-node doubly curved isoparametric thin shallow shell element with the three-node curved isoparametric beam element. The shell forms include the hyperbolic paraboloid, hypar, and conoidal shells. The accuracy of the formulation is validated by comparing the authors’ results of specific problems with those available in the literature. The additional problems are taken up for parametric studies to include the effects of fiber orientation and lamina stacking sequence of shells and stiffeners. Moreover, the effects of number, types, and orientations of stiffeners, and stiffener depth to shell thickness ratio on the fundamental frequency are also included in the present study. Further, mode shapes corresponding to the fundamental frequency for typical cases are obtained to verify the parametric trend of the results of the fundamental frequency.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 131 • Issue 1 • January 2005
Pages: 100 - 105
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© 2004 ASCE.
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Received: Mar 12, 2002
Accepted: Jun 29, 2004
Published online: Jan 1, 2005
Published in print: Jan 2005
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Note. Associate Editor: Francisco Armero
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