Three-dimensional vibration analysis of thick shells of revolution with arbitrary curvature and variable thickness

his dissertation presents a method of three-dimensional (3-D) analysis for determining the free vibration frequencies and corresponding mode shapes of thick shells of revolution with arbitrary curvature and variable thickness in the meridional direction (;The analysis is based upon the Ritz method using the general theory of linear elasticity with tensor analysis. The method assumes for the three displacement components a Fourier series in the circumferential (;Throughout the dissertation, Poisson's ratio...