Numerical Analysis on Natural Vibration of Cylindrical shell with Different Cross-section

Abstract

Cylindrical shell in engineering has different cross-section, i.e., circular section, oval section, rectangular section, and so on. In this work, numerical analysis is conducted on natural vibration of cylindrical shell with different cross-section, and the difference is studied between modal frequency and modal shape from different section shell. Numerical results show that, with the same length, width /thickness and boundary condition, the first 10 order modal frequency from circular section shell is nearly 60% bigger than that from the rectangular section shell. This indicates that the load carry ability of circular cylindrical shell is much better than rectangular cylindrical shell, which will help to support the design of cylindrical shell in engineering.