On the Solution of Shells of Revolution with Cutouts.

Abstract : A procedure is outlined for analyzing shells of revolution with nonaxisymmetric geometrical or physical occurrences, e.g. cutouts. Such a cutout means that the shell is no longer a shell of revolution. Advantage is taken of the efficient tools available for analyzing shells of revolution to find the response of a shell which can be modeled as a shell of revolution with such nonaxisymmetric occurrences as cutouts or attachments. In particular, the proposed scheme is a postprocessor for the numerical integration method of shell of revolution analysis.