Analysis of Stresses and Displacements in Orthotropic Noncircular Cylindrical Shells Under Centrifugal Loads

Abstract

This paper addresses the class of stress–strain problems for thin orthotropic cylindrical shells of arbitrary cross section under centrifugal loads. Separating out the variables for a simply supported shell yields a system of ordinary differential equations for which the boundary-value problem is solved by a stable numerical method. Study is made of the distribution of displacements in shells of elliptical cross section versus the ratio of ellipse exes and the eccentricity of the axis of revolution relative to the geometrical axis of symmetry