Solution of governing differential equations of vibrating cylindrical shells using B-spline functions

The cubic B3-spline functions and eigenfunctions are used to obtain the approximate solution for the vibration of cylindrical shells in this paper. Unified computational schemes suited for various types of boundary conditions are formulated here. In comparison with the conventional finite elements method and finite strip method, the main features of the present method are higher accuracy, fewer unknowns, ease in programming, and economy in computer solution. The numerical results are given and compared with other numerical solutions.