Analytical and Numerical Studies of Free Vibrations of Cylindrical Shell With Acoustic Medium

Abstract

The research materials are related to the problem of ensuring vibration resistance of pipelines exposed to dynamic loads, for which increased vibration is the main cause of damage. The solution to this problem involves studying the parameters of free vibrations of the structure. The paper solves the problem of determining the natural frequencies and forms of vibrations of a section of a circular cylindrical shell filled with an medium considered in the acoustic approximation. The results of studies of the parameters of free vibrations were obtained both by the analytical method of shell theory based on the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses, and using the finite element complex of engineering analysis ANSYS. It is shown that the influence of the medium density on the parameters of free vibrations of the shell depends on the ratio of the shell thickness to its radius it turns out to be significant only for the shape of vibrations associated with bending deformation, and insignificant for forms associated with deformations of the middle layer. A comparative analysis of the results of calculations obtained for models of compressible and incompressible medium shows that when solving the problem of determining the parameters of free vibrations of the shell, the compressibility of the medium can be neglected. At the same time, to solve practical problems that require taking into account the full spectrum of natural frequencies of the shell–medium system, a compressible medium model should be used, in which the results on the effect of shell stiffness on the frequency spectrum of the medium volume are obtained. When solving practical problems of pipeline systems vibration, the use of the finite element method in a coupled formulation is an effective tool that allows us to consider all physical processes taking into account their mutual influence on each other.