Dynamic stiffness vibration analysis of thick spherical shell segments with variable thickness

Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 821-835

  Efraim, Elia ^a   Eisenberger, Moshe ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dynamic stiffness; Exact element method; Spherical shell; Thick shell; Variable thickness; Vibrations

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC STIFFNESS; ELEMENT METHOD; SPHERICAL SHELL; THICK SHELLS; VARIABLE THICKNESS; VIBRATIONS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPHERES; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; THICKNESS CONTROL;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650236999     PISSN: 15593959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2010.5.821     Document Type: Article

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