Vibrations of structurally orthotropic laminated shells under thermal power loading

Abstract

On the basis of the linearized version of equations obtained in a geometrically nonlinear statement and describing the nonaxisymmetric strain of nonshallow sandwich structure orthotropic shells under thermal power loading, the Rayleigh–Ritz method with polynomial approximation of displacements and shear strains is used to solve the problem of small free vibrations of axisymmetrically thermally preloaded freely supported three-layer conical shell. The causes of dynamical fracture of the shell under study are revealed.