Linear and nonlinear parametric instability behavior of cylindrical sandwich panels subjected to various mechanical edge loadings

ABSTRACT Linear and nonlinear dynamic instability behavior of cylindrical sandwich panels subjected to combined static and dynamic nonuniform in-plane loadings is studied in this article. The core compressibility effects are considered in the model by assuming fourth and fifth order expansions for the transverse and tangential displacement of the core. The exact stress distributions within the panel are determined by panel prebuckling analysis for the applied parabolic and partial edge loadings. Galerkin's method is used to reduce the governing partial differential equations of the shell panel into a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Dropping the nonlinear term, dynamic instability regions are obtained by solving the Mathieu-type differential equation by the method of Fourier series. The characteristics feature of the stable and unstable regions are investigated by linear and nonlinear time history responses and phase plots of the shell panel in those regions using Newmark's time integration. Incremental harmonic balance (IHB) method is used to study the nonlinear frequency amplitude responses of the cylindrical sandwich panels.

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