Abstract
The vibration and damping analysis of multi-layered conical shells incorporating layers of viscoelastic materials in addition to elastic ones, the former causing dissipation of vibratory energy, is the subject matter of this paper. The analysis given herein uses Hamilton's variational principle for deriving equations of motion of a general multi-layered conical shell. In view of the correspondence principle of linear viscoelasticity which is valid for harmonic vibrations, the solution is obtained by replacing the moduli of viscoelastic layers by complex moduli. An approximate solution for axisymmetric vibrations of multi-layered conical shells with two end conditions—simply supported edges and clamped edges—is obtained by utilizing the Galerkin procedure. The damping effectiveness in terms of the system loss factor for all families of modes of vibrations for three-, five- and seven-layered shells is evaluated and its variation with geometrical parameters is investigated.
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