Accession Number:
AD0276458
Title:
FREE VIBRATIONS OF RING-STIFFENED SHELLS
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Corporate Author:
GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORP BETHPAGE N Y
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Report Date:
1962-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
1.0
Abstract:
The modal method is used to obtain the free modes of vibration of ring-stiffened shells. The equations of motion of the ring reinforced shell are written in terms of the normal modes of the unstiffened shell. The stiffening rings are considered as displacement-dependent line-loads and enter the analysis in terms of their elastic properties. This procedure replaces the usual transcendental frequency equation by a more easily evaluated system of linear, algebraic, homogeneous equations. An arbitrary number of intermediate rings of unequal size and spacing may be accommodated. Author