Abstract
The response of a thin cylindrical shell subject to sinusoidal and shock excitation is predicted using the Rayleigh theory of inextensibility. In the theoretical analysitwo separate cases are considered; in the first the loads are applied at each end of the shell while in the second the loads are applied at one end only. In each case the position of the loads is perfectly general. Experimental verification is provided for the special case of the load and support points being in the horizontal plane through a shell diameter; one end of the shell being supported while the other end is subjected to sinusoidal and shock excitation.
The correlation between the experimental and theoretical results indicated that the response of the shell could be predicted from the theory of inextensibility.
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