The Wave-based Finite Element Method or WFEM is applied to in-vacuo cylindrical shells to studystructure-borne wave interaction with bulkhead and keel-type plate attachments. The frequency rangeconsidered is from one to ten times the shell "ring" frequency. The goal is to better understand theshell-plate interaction, which plays an important role in the acoustic scattering and r...

Earth dam is a structure as homogeneous or non-homogeneous forms for raising water level or water supply. Earth dam consist of different parts that one of the main parts is clay core. Choosing an optimal non permeable core which causes reduction of seepage through dam body and also being stable is necessary. The objective of this research is to optimize the geometry of earth dam clay core such ...

This paper deals with the nonlinear buckling and post-buckling of sandwich cylindrical panels non-uniform porous core functionally graded face sheets. The imperfect are subjected to axial loading on elastic foundation. Based Donnell shell theory, von Kármán geometrical nonlinearity, governing equations derived. effects foundation, various panel characteristics, porosity parameters, thickness in...

In this paper, individual and combined effects of distributed and local geometrical imperfections on the limit load of an isotropic, thin-walled cylindrical shell under axial compression are investigated. First eigen affine mode shape imperfection pattern (FEAMSIP) is taken as distributed geometrical imperfections and dent as local geometrical imperfections. Limit load of the cylindrical shells...