Dynamic analysis of an orthotropic viscoelastic cylindrical panel of variable thickness

Abstract

The intensive development of the modern industry is associated with the emergence of a variety of new composite materials. Plates, panels, and shells of variable thickness made of such materials are widely used in engineering and machine building. Modern technology for the manufacture of thin-walled structures of any configuration makes it possible to obtain structures with a given thickness variation law. Such thin-walled structures are subjected to various loads, including periodic ones. Nonlinear parametric vibrations of an orthotropic viscoelastic cylindrical panel of variable thickness are investigated without considering the elastic wave propagation. To derive a mathematical model of the problem, the Kirchhoff-Love theory is used in a geometrically nonlinear setting. The viscoelastic properties of a cylindrical panel are described by the hereditary Boltzmann-Volterra theory with a three-parameter Koltunov-Rzhanitsyn relaxation kernel. The problem is solved by the Bubnov-Galerkin method in combination with the numerical method. For the numerical implementation of the problem, an algorithm and a computer program were developed in the Delphi algorithmic language. Nonlinear parametric vibrations of orthotropic viscoelastic cylindrical panels under external periodic load were investigated. The influence of various physical, mechanical, and geometric parameters on the panel behavior, such as the thickness, viscoelastic and inhomogeneous properties of the material, external periodic load, were studied.