The objects of consideration are thin linearly elastic Kirchhoff-Love-type circular cylindrical shells having a periodically micro-heterogeneous structure in circumferential direction (uniperiodic shells). The aim of this contribution is to study certain problems of micro-vibrations and of wave propagation related to microfluctuations of displacement field caused by a periodic structure of the shells. These micro-dynamic problems will be analysed in the framework of a certain mathematical averaged model derived by means of the combined modelling procedure. The combined modelling includes both the asymptotic and the tolerance non-asymptotic modelling techniques, which are conjugated with themselves under special conditions. Contrary to the starting exact shell equations with highly oscillating, non-continuous and periodic coefficients, governing equations of the combined model have constant coefficients depending also on a cell size. Hence, this model takes into account the effect of a microstructure size on the dynamic behaviour of the shells (the length-scale effect). It will be shown that the micro-periodic heterogeneity of the shells leads to cell-depending micro-vibrations and to exponential waves as well as to dispersion effects, which cannot be analysed in the framework of the asymptotic models commonly used for investigations of vibrations and wave propagation in the periodic structures. Keywords Uniperiodic shells • Asymptotic and tolerance modelling • Micro-dynamics Communicated by Andreas Öchsner.
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