Published: 31 December 2016

Free vibration analysis of truncated circular conical shells with variable thickness using the Haar wavelet method

Qiyi Dai1
Qingjie Cao2
Yushu Chen3
1, 2, 3School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Corresponding Author:
Qingjie Cao
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Abstract

This paper investigates the free vibration characteristics of truncated conical shells with variable thickness using the Haar wavelet method. Based on the Love first-approximation theory, the governing partial differential equations are formulated, which are transformed into ordinary differential equations using the separation of variables. The Haar wavelet discretization method is introduced to predict the dynamic characteristics of truncated circular conical shells with linearly and parabolically varying thickness. The present analysis is validated by comparing the numerical results with those available in the literature and very good agreement is achieved. The effects of geometrical parameters and boundary conditions on the vibration characteristics of conical shells with variable thickness are presented. The advantages of this method consist in its simplicity, fast convergence and high precision.

1. Introduction

The truncated circular conical shells are widely used as structural elements in various branches of engineering such as mechanical, marine, civil and power engineer. The static and dynamic characteristics of this shell-type of structures have been of great interest to many researchers [1-13]. Irie et al. [1, 2] analyzed free vibration characteristics of conical shells with constant and variable thickness using the transfer matrix method. The free vibration analysis of laminated conical shells with variable thickness was conducted by Sankaranarayanan et al. [3] using the energy method based on the Rayleigh-Ritz procedure. The semi-analytical finite element method was implemented by Sivadas and Ganesan [4] to study the effects of thickness variation on natural frequencies of laminated conical shells. Tong [5, 6] investigated the free vibrations of orthotropic and composite laminated conical shells using the power series expansion approach. The global method of generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) was applied by Shu [7] for the first time to study the free vibration of isotropic conical shells. Lam and Hua [8, 9] employed the Galerkin method to study the influence of boundary conditions on free vibration characteristics of truncated circular isotropic and orthotropic conical shells. Lam and Hua [10] also presented the influence of orthotropic material on frequencies characteristics of thin truncated circular symmetrical cross-ply laminated conical shells using the GDQ method. Omer [11], Liew et al. [12], Jin et al. [13] performed free vibration analysis of conical shells using discrete singular convolution (DSC) method, the element-free kp-Ritz method and the modified Fourier series solution, respectively. The literature clearly shows that there is few investigation on vibration of conical shells with variable thickness. This mainly because that the additional terms due to the variable thickness will make the governing equations more complicated than the uniform shells, and the conventional methods are unable or complex to extend to the problems of this type of structures. Thus, it is necessary to develop an efficient approach to solve the dynamics of this type of structures. The main aim of this present paper is to respond this need.

The Haar wavelet method, for its mathematically simplicity, computationally efficient and numerically accurate, have been applied for solving integral and differential equations in Refs. [14-16]. In addition, it should be noticed here that the Haar wavelet method is also a valuable tool in structural mechanics problems. Lepik [17, 18] used the Haar wavelet method to study the buckling of elastic beams and vibration characteristics of cracked beams. Zhang and Zhong [19] gave an investigation of a three-dimensional analysis of a simply-supported functionally graded rectangular plate based on the Haar wavelet. The elastic bending problems of orthotropic plates and shells were solved by Majak et al. [20] using this method. Recently, Xie et al. [21, 22] applied the Haar wavelet method to investigate the free vibrations of isotropic and composite cylindrical shells. However, to the knowledge of the authors, it appears that the Haar wavelet method has not been developed to solve the vibration of conical shells with variable thickness.

The motivation of this paper is to investigate vibration characteristics of truncated circular conical shells with variable thickness and present the Haar wavelet method directly to the solution, which simplifies the process presented in Refs. [21, 22]. In the Refs. [21, 22], the integration constants are solved by the matrix form, which makes it hard to solve the problems of the simply or free boundary conditions for conical shells. In this paper, the integration constants are obtained directly from the boundary equations, making it universal to cope with all types of boundary conditions. The governing partial differential equations are established based on the Love first-approximation theory. Then the Haar wavelet method is applied to calculate the natural frequencies and mode shapes of truncated circular conical shells with linearly and parabolically varying thickness. Accuracy of the present method is validated by comparing the present results with the previous studies for both the uniform cylindrical and conical shells. The influences of boundary conditions and geometrical parameters on the free vibration of the conical shells with variable thickness are presented.

2. Theoretical formulation

Consider a truncated circular conical shell as shown in Fig. 1, where α is semi-vertex angle, L length, R1 and R2 are the radii at two ends. The reference surface of the conical shell is taken to be at its middle surface where an orthogonal coordinate system x,θ,z is fixed. The displacements of the shell are denoted by u, v and w in the meridional x, circumferential θ and normal z directions, respectively. The cone radius at any point along its length is given by:

1
Rx=R1+xsinα.

The circular conical shell with variable thickness is shown in Fig. 2, where h1 and h2 are the thickness at the two ends. The thickness hx can be expressed as [2]:

2
hx=h2-h2-h11-xLp, p>0.

Fig. 1Geometry of a truncated circular conical shell

Geometry of a truncated circular conical shell

When the value of p is extremely large or small, the thickness is suddenly near an edge and such shells are not common in practice. In this paper, the thickness changes linearly for p= 1, and changes parabolically for p= 2.

The governing equations of free vibration for the truncated circular conical shell based on the Love first-approximation theory can be expressed as follows:

3
L11+L~11u+L12+L~12v+L13+L~13w-ρhx2ut2=0,
L21+L~21u+L22+L~22v+L23+L~23w-ρhx2vt2=0,
L31+L~31u+L32+L~32v+L33+L~33w-ρhx2wt2=0,

where the expressions of differential operators Lij and L~ij are expressed as:

L11=-A22sin2αR2x+A66R2x2θ2+A11sinαRxx+A112x2,L~11=A11xx+A11xsinαRx,
L12=-A22+A66sinαR2xθ+A12+A66Rx2xθ,L~12=A12x1Rxθ,
L13=-A22cosαsinαR2x+A12cosαRxx,L~13=A12xcosαRx,
L21=A22+A66sinαR2xθ+A21+A66Rx2xθ,L~21=A66x1Rxθ,
L22=4D66sin2αcos2αR4x-A66sin2αR2x+2D66cos2αR2x+A662x2+D22cos2αR4x+A22R2x2θ2
+2D66cos2αR2x+A662x2-4D66cos2αsinαR3x-A66sinαRxx,
L~22=A66xx-A66xsinαRx,
L23=-4D66cosαsin2αR4x-A22cosαR2xθ-D22cosαR4x3θ3-D22-4D66cosαsinαR3x2xθ
-D21+2D66cosαR2x3x2θ,
4
L~23=0,L31=-A22cosαsin2αR2x-A21cosαRxx,L~31=0,
L32=-D22cosαR4x3θ3-2D12+D22+8D66cosαsinαR3x2xθ+D12+4D66cosαR2x3x2θ
-2D12+D22+4D66R4x-A22cosαR2xθ,
L~32=2D12x2cosαR2x-3D12xsinαcosαR3x-D22xsinαcosαR3xθ+2D12xcosαR2x2xθ,
+2D66xcosαRxx-2D66xsinαcosαR2x,
L33=-A22cos2αR2x-D22R4x4θ4-D22sin3αR3xx-D22R4x4θ4-2D12+D22+4D66sinαR4x2θ2
-D114x4+D22sin2αR2x2x2+2D12+4D66sinαR3x3x2θ-2D11sinαRx3x3
-2D12+4D66R2x4x2θ2,
L~33=-2D11x3x3-2D12x21R2x-3D12xsinαR3x+2D12x1R2x-D22xsinαR3x2θ2
-2D12x2sinαRx-2D12xsinαR2x+D12xsin2αR2x-D22xsin2αR2xx+2D66xsinαR2xθ
-2D66x1Rx2xθ-2D11x2+D12xsinαRx+D11xsinαRx2x2.

It is worth noting that the expressions of differential operators Lij for conical shells with uniform thickness are the same as given in Refs. [7, 11], and the additional terms L~ij are resulted from the variable thickness, which have not been presented in the open literature. The tensile stiffness Aij, bending stiffness Dij are calculated from the following equations:

5
A11=A22=Ehx1-μ2,A12=A21=Eμhx1-μ2,A66=Ehx21+μ,
D11=D22=Ehx312(1-μ2),D12=D21=Eμhx312(1-μ2),D66=Ehx324(1+μ).

By the use of separation of variables, the displacement field variables can be expressed as [7]:

6
ux,θ,t=Uxcosnθcosωt,
vx,θ,t=Vxsinnθcosωt,
wx,θ,t=Wxcosnθcosωt,

where ω is the angular frequency parameter and n is the circumferential wave number. Ux, Vx and Wx are the shape functions along the axes of the displacements u,v and w. Substituting expressions of the displacement field Eq. (6) into the governing Eq. (3), and introducing the normalized variable ξ defined by ξ=x/L, the following equations can be derived as:

7
G111+G~111U+G112+G~1121LdUdξ+G1131L2d2Udξ2+G121+G~121V+G1221LdVdξ
+G131+G~131W+G1321LdWdξ+ρhξω2U=0,
G211+G~211U+G2121LdUdξ+G221+G~221V+G222+G~2221LdVdξ+G2231L2d2Vdξ2
+G231W+G2321LdWdξ++G2331L2d2Wdξ2+ρhξω2V=0,
G311U+G3121LdUdξ+G321+G~321V+G322+G~3221LdVdξ+G3231L2d2Vdξ2
+G331+G~331W+G332+G~3321LdWdξ+G333+G~3331L2d2Wdξ2
+G334+G~3341L3d3Wdξ3+G3351L4d4Wdξ4+ρhξω2W=0,

where Gijk and G~ijk are the variable coefficients related to the normalized variable ξ and given in the Appendix A1.

In the present study, the following two types of boundary conditions are considered. The clamped and simply supported boundary conditions can be described as follows [7, 11].

Fig. 2Geometry of a truncated circular conical shell with variable thickness

Geometry of a truncated circular conical shell with variable thickness

1. Clamped edge:

8
U=0,V=0, W=0,dWdξ=0.

2. Simply supported edge:

9
V=0,W=0, Nξ=0,Mξ=0,

where N and M are the frce and moment resultants. They are related to the displacement field in the form:

10
Nξ=Ehξ1-μ21Luξ+μ1Rξvθ+usinα+wcosαRξ,
Mξ=-Ehξ3121-μ2L22wξ2-Eμhξ3121-μ21R2ξ2wθ2-cosαR2ξvθ+sinαLRξwξ.

3. The Haar wavelet method

The Haar wavelets are consisted of piecewise constant functions and are the simplest among all the wavelet families. The Haar wavelet family for ξ [0, 1] is defined as follows [21]:

11
hiξ= 1, ξξ1,ξ2,-1, ξξ2,ξ3,0, elsewhere.

In Eq. (11), the notations:

12
ξ1=km,ξ2=k+0.5m,ξ3=k+1m,

are introduced. The quantity M=2J is defined, where J is the maximal level of resolution. The two parameters j and k are introduced: j= 0, 1,…, J and k= 0, 1,…, m-1 (here the notation m=2j is introduced). The wavelet number i is defined as i=m+k+1. The case i= 1 corresponds to the scaling function: h1ξ= 1 for ξ0, 1 and h1ξ= 0 elsewhere. The interval [0, 1] is divided into 2M subintervals of equal length x=1/2M; the collocation points are defined as follows:

13
ξl=l-0.52M,l=1,2,,2M.

In order to apply the Haar wavelet method for further studies, the following integrals of the wavelets in the case i>1 are also required [21]:

14
pn,iξ=0,ξ<ξ1,1n!ξ-ξ1n,ξξ1,ξ2,1n!ξ-ξ1n-2ξ-ξ2n,ξξ2,ξ3,1n!ξ-ξ1n-2ξ-ξ2n+ξ-ξ3n, ξ>ξ3.

And in the case i= 1, we can obtain the integral of the wavelet is pn,1=ξn/n!.

In the following section, the Haar wavelet method will be in detail presented to show how to apply it to resolve vibration problems of the conical shells. Firstly, the solutions of the displacements u, v and w can be assumed as:

15
U''ξ=i=12Maihiξ,V''ξ=i=12Mbihiξ,WIVξ=i=12Mcihiξ,

where ai,bi and ci are the unknown wavelet coefficients. By integrating Eq. (15) and taking into account Eq. (14), we have:

16
U'ξ=i=12Maip1,iξ+U'0,Uξ=i=12Maip2,iξ+ξU'0+U0,
V'ξ=i=12Mbip1,iξ+V'0,Vξ=i=12Mbip2,iξ+ξV'0+V0,
W'''ξ=i=12Mcip1,iξ+W'''0,W''ξ=i=12Mcip2,iξ+ξW'''0+W''0,
W'ξ=i=12Mcip3,iξ+12ξ2W'''0+ξW''0+W'0,
Wξ=i=12Mcip4,iξ+16ξ3W'''0+12ξ2W''0+ξW'0+W0.

The eight integration constants in Eq. (16) can be determined from boundary conditions. After discretion by the Haar wavelet method, the forms of the boundary conditions can be described as follows.

1. Clamped edge:

17
U=0,V=0, W=0,dWdξ=0.

2. Simply supported edge:

18
V=0,W=0, μsinαRU+1LdUdξ=0,μsinαRdWdξ+1Ld2Wdξ2=0.

Here, we only take the simply supported boundary condition at two ends as an example to present the detailed solution process. According to Eq. (18), the eight additional equations can be written as:

19
V0=0,W0=0,f1U0+U'0=0,f1W'0+W''0=0,
V1=i=12Mbip2,iξ+V'0+V0=0,
W1=i=12Mcip4,iξ+16W'''0+12W''0+W'0+W0=0,
f2U1+U'1=f2i=12Maip2,i1+U'0+U0+i=12Maip1,i1+U'0=0,
f2W'1+W''1=f2i=12Mcip3,iξ+12W'''0+W''0+W'0
+i=12Mcip2,iξ+W'''0+W''0=0,

where:

20
f1=μLsinαR1,f2=μLsinαR2.

By solving Eq. (19), the eight integration constants in Eq. (16) can be obtained in the following matrix form:

21
U0=f2p2,1+p1,1f1f2-f2+f1a=A1a,U'0=-f1A1a=A2a,
V0=0,V'0=-p2,1b,W0=0,
W'0=f2p3,1-3f2p4,1+p2,1-6p4,1f1-f2+f1f2-0.5f2+13f1-6c=A3c,
W''0=-f1A3c=A4c,W'''0=3f1-6A3-6p4,1c=A5c.

By substituting Eq. (21) into Eq. (16), and taking into account Eq. (15), we can obtain the following matrix forms of all displacement variables and their derivatives:

22
U=p2+ξA2+E1A1a=B1a,U'=p1+E1A2a=B2a,
V=p2-ξp2,1b=B3b,V'=p1-E1p2,1b=B4b,
W=p4+16ξ3A5+12ξ2A4+ξA3c=B5c,
W'=p3+12ξ2A5+ξA4+E1A3c=B6c,
W''=p2+ξA5+E1A4c=B7c,W'''=p1+E1A5c=B8c,
U''=Ha,V''=Hb,WIV=Hc.

The detailed expressions of the notations in Eqs. (21) and (22) are given in the Appendix A2. By substituting Eq. (22) into Eq. (7), the following eigenvalue equation with respect to ω in matrix form can be obtained:

23
K-ω2MX=0,

where X given by X=a,b,cT is the vector of unknown variables. K and M denote the stiffness matrix and mass matrix, respectively. Obviously, solving the standard eigenvalue equation provides the natural frequencies ω of the conical shells. The mode shapes of Ux, Vx and Wx which corresponds to a certain frequency can be simultaneously obtained by substituting the corresponding eigenvector X back into the Eq. (22). The detailed expressions of K and M can be expressed as follows:

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K=K11K12K13K21K22K23K31K32K33,M=M11000M22000M33,

where:

K11=G111B1+G112B2L+G113HL2,K12=G121B3+G122B4L,
K13=G131B5+G132B6L,K21=G211B1+G212B2L,
K22=G221B3+G222B4L+G223HL2,K23=G231B5+G232B6L+G233B7L2,
K31=G311B1+G312B2L,K32=G321B3+G322B4L+G323HL2,
K33=G331B5+G332B6L+G333B7L2+G334B8L3+G335HL4,
M11=-ρhB1,M22=-ρhB3,M33=-ρhB5,

where the matrix Gijkm,n=Gijkξm for m=n (m,n=1, 2,…, 2M), and Gijkm,n= 0 elsewhere.

4. Results and discussions

In the present paper, four sets of boundary conditions are investigated, namely, clamped small edge and clamped large edge (Cs-Cl), clamped small edge and simply supported large edge (Cs-Sl), simply supported small edge and clamped large edge (Ss-Cl) and simply supported small edge and simply supported large edge (Ss-Sl). In the present numerical calculation, a non-dimensional frequency parameter f is introduced and defined as:

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f=ωR2ρ1-μ2E.

To validate the accuracy and fast convergence rate of the present method, convergence analysis and comparisons with results available in the literature are performed. The corresponding numerical results are shown in Tables 1-4.

Firstly, the convergence results of the frequency parameter f for uniform cylindrical shells, which can be seen as special cases of conical shells, are shown in table 1. The parameters used in the calculations are α= 0°, μ= 0.3, L/R= 10, m= 1 and n= 2 or 4, where m and n denote the order of axial mode and circumferential wave number. By comparing with the exact results in Ref. [23], the series results in Ref. [24] and the DSC results in Ref. [11], the results of the present method are in good accordance with the above-mentioned references. Secondly, in Table 2, the frequency parameter f for conical shells with uniform thickness under four typical boundary conditions are considered. The parameters are α= 45°, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1=h2, Lsinα/R2=0.5, m= 1 and n= 3. As can be seen, the present results are generally in agreement with the results obtained by the transfer matrix method in Ref. [1], the GDQ method in Ref. [7] and the element-free kp-Ritz method in Ref. [12]. From tables 1 and 2, it is shown that the convergence of the present method for all the cases is very good. And when the number of J is larger than 6, the numerical results change very slightly. Thus, J= 6 will be used in the following computations.

Table 3 shows the comparison for conical shells with uniform thickness under Cs-Cl boundary conditions and circumferential wave number n= 1-9, and the other parameters are the same as those in Table 2. As shown in the table, the present results are in good accordance with those in Refs. [1, 7, 12]. However, the results obtained by the Galerkin procedure in Ref. [9] are a little higher than other four results. It may be concluded that the Galerkin procedure for solving the conical shells is not very accurate.

The comparison results of conical shells with uniform thickness under Ss-Sl boundary conditions for different semi-vertex angles are listed in table 4. The parameters are m= 1, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1=h2 and Lsinα/R2= 0.25. Again, it can be observed that the solutions of the present method are in good agreement with the reference results.

Table 1Convergence of frequency parameter f for cylindrical shells with C-C boundary conditions (α= 0°, m= 1, μ= 0.3, L/R= 10)

Case
Ref. [23]
Ref. [24]
Ref. [11]
Present
J= 3
J= 5
J= 6
J= 7
h/R= 0.002 (n= 4)
0.01508
0.01515
0.01506
0.01700
0.01522
0.01511
0.01509
h/R= 0.05 (n= 2)
0.05787
0.05795
0.05738
0.05931
0.05800
0.05792
0.05791

Table 2Convergence of frequency parameters f for conical shells with uniform thickness under different boundary conditions (α= 45°, m= 1, n= 3, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1=h2, Lsinα/R2=0.5)

Cs-Cl
Cs-Sl
Ss-Cl
Ss-Sl
Ref. [1]
0.5430
0.5203
0.5249
0.5065
Ref. [7]
0.5428
0.5201
0.5246
0.5062
Ref. [12]
0.5428
0.5199
0.5244
0.5061
J= 2
0.5439
0.5216
0.5262
0.5081
J= 3
0.5430
0.5204
0.5250
0.5067
J= 4
0.5428
0.5202
0.5247
0.5063
J= 5
0.5428
0.5201
0.5247
0.5062
J= 6
0.5428
0.5201
0.5247
0.5062
J= 7
0.5428
0.5201
0.5247
0.5062

Table 3Comparison of frequency parameter f for conical shells with uniform thickness under Cs-Cl boundary conditions (α= 45°, m= 1, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1=h2, Lsinα/R2= 0.5)

n
Ref. [1]
Ref. [7]
Ref. [9]
Ref. [12]
Present
1
0.8120
0.8120
0.8452
0.8120
0.8120
2
0.6696
0.6696
0.6803
0.6696
0.6695
3
0.5430
0.5428
0.5553
0.5428
0.5428
4
0.4570
0.4566
0.4778
0.4565
0.4566
5
0.4095
0.4089
0.4395
0.4088
0.4089
6
0.3970
0.3963
0.3961
0.3962
7
0.4151
0.4143
0.4141
0.4141
8
0.4577
0.4568
0.4567
0.4567
9
0.5186
0.5177
0.5175
0.5175

From the convergence and comparison studies performed in Tables 1-4, it is concluded that the accurate and convergent results can be obtained using just a few collocation points, which are related to the maximal level of resolution J. This conclusion indicates that the present method are numerically accurate and computationally efficient.

Table 4Comparison of frequency parameter f for conical shells with uniform thickness under Ss-Sl boundary conditions (m= 1, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1=h2, Lsinα/R2= 0.25)

n
α= 30°
α= 60°
Ref. [1]
Ref. [12]
Present
Ref. [1]
Ref. [12]
Present
1
0.5923
0.5922
0.4754
0.4754
2
0.7910
0.7909
0.7909
0.5722
0.5719
0.5721
3
0.7284
0.7281
0.7282
0.6001
0.5998
0.6001
4
0.6352
0.6347
0.6349
0.6054
0.6049
0.6053
5
0.5531
0.5522
0.5525
0.6077
0.6071
0.6075
6
0.4949
0.4938
0.4941
0.6159
0.6152
0.6156
7
0.4653
0.4639
0.4643
0.6343
0.6335
0.6340
8
0.4654
0.4629
0.4633
0.6650
0.6641
0.6646
9
0.4892
0.4875
0.4879
0.7084
0.7075
0.7080

The effect of the circumferential wave number n on the vibration frequencies has been studied and the results are shown in Fig. 3. Numerical results given in this figure are obtained by setting α= 45°, m= 1, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5 and Lsinα/R2= 0.5. In Fig. 3, the “L” and “P” represent the linearly and parabolically varying thickness, and the following Figs. 4-7 have the same meaning. As shown in this figure, the frequencies for Cs-Cl boundary conditions decrease rapidly for the first few wave number n and then increase with the increase of n. However, the frequencies for Ss-Sl boundary condition, first increase, then decrease, and again increase with the increase of n. This trend is in accordance with the results listed in Table 4. The Cs-Cl boundary conditions provide larger frequency parameter than Ss-Sl boundary conditions. And the difference of frequencies for the two boundary conditions between the linearly and parabolically varying thickness becomes more and more distinct with the increase of n. It is concluded that the type of variable thickness has significant quantitative effects on the frequencies when n is large.

Fig. 3Variation of the frequency parameter f with respect to circumferential wave number. (α= 45°, m= 1, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2= 0.5)

Variation of the frequency parameter f  with respect to circumferential wave number.  (α= 45°, m= 1, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01,  h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2= 0.5)

Fig. 4Variation of the frequency parameter f with respect to semivertex angle α. (m= 1, n= 5, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2= 0.5)

Variation of the frequency parameter f  with respect to semivertex angle α.  (m= 1, n= 5, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01,  h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2= 0.5)

In Fig. 4, the variation of frequency parameter f with respect to semi-vertex angle α for conical shells with variable thickness under Cs-Cl and Ss-Sl boundary conditions is depicted. The parameters used in this figure are m= 1, n= 5, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5 and Lsinα/R2= 0.5. From Fig. 4, it can be observed that a consistent trend for all the two boundary conditions is the same, that is, the frequencies initially increase with the increase of α and upon reaching a peak, the frequencies decrease as α is further increased. And the peak for the two boundary conditions occurs at almost the same α, namely α= 50°. It also can be seen from Fig. 4 that the difference of frequencies for the two boundary conditions between the linearly and parabolically varying thickness seems more distinct when α is larger.

Fig. 5Variation of the frequency parameter f with respect to length-to-radius ratio L/R1. (α= 30°, m= 1, n= 7, μ= 0.3, h2/R1= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5)

Variation of the frequency parameter f  with respect to length-to-radius ratio L/R1. (α= 30°, m= 1, n= 7, μ= 0.3, h2/R1= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5)

Fig. 6Variation of the frequency parameter f with respect to thickness-to- thickness h1/h2. (α= 30°, m= 1, n= 7, μ= 0.3, h2/R1= 0.01, L/R1= 15)

Variation of the frequency parameter f with respect to thickness-to- thickness h1/h2. (α= 30°, m= 1, n= 7, μ= 0.3, h2/R1= 0.01, L/R1= 15)

Fig. 7Axial mode shapes of the displacement w under different boundary conditions: a) Cs-Cl; b) Cs-Sl; c) Ss-Cl; d) Ss-Sl. (α= 45°, n= 2, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2=0.5)

Axial mode shapes of the displacement w under different boundary conditions: a) Cs-Cl; b) Cs-Sl; c) Ss-Cl; d) Ss-Sl. (α= 45°, n= 2, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2=0.5)
Axial mode shapes of the displacement w under different boundary conditions: a) Cs-Cl; b) Cs-Sl; c) Ss-Cl; d) Ss-Sl. (α= 45°, n= 2, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2=0.5)
Axial mode shapes of the displacement w under different boundary conditions: a) Cs-Cl; b) Cs-Sl; c) Ss-Cl; d) Ss-Sl. (α= 45°, n= 2, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2=0.5)
Axial mode shapes of the displacement w under different boundary conditions: a) Cs-Cl; b) Cs-Sl; c) Ss-Cl; d) Ss-Sl. (α= 45°, n= 2, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5, Lsinα/R2=0.5)

Figs. 5 and 6 show the variations of the frequency parameter f with length-to-radius ratio L/R1 and thickness-to- thickness ratio h1/h2, respectively. The parameters used in Fig. 5 are α=30°, m= 1, n= 7, μ= 0.3 h2/R1= 0.01, and h1/h2= 0.5. As shown in this figure, the frequencies for the Cs-Cl and Ss-Sl boundary conditions decrease with the increase of L/R1. And the difference of frequencies for the two boundary conditions between the linearly and parabolically varying thickness change slightly with the increase of L/R1. Results given in Fig. 6 are obtained by setting α= 30°, m= 1, n= 7, μ= 0.3, h2/R1= 0.01 and L/R1 15. It can be seen from Fig. 6 that the frequencies for all the Cs-Cl and Ss-Sl boundary conditions increase with the increase of h1/h2. The difference of frequencies for the two boundary conditions between the linearly and parabolically varying thickness become more and more smaller with the increase of h1/h2, and the results of the linearly and parabolically varying thickness are the same when h1/h2= 1.

Fig. 7 shows some axial mode shapes of the displacement w for conical shells with variable thickness under the Cs-Cl, Cs-Sl, Ss-Cl, and Ss-Sl boundary conditions. The parameters used in this figure are α= 45°, n= 2, μ= 0.3, h2/R2= 0.01, h1/h2= 0.5 and Lsinα/R2= 0.5. It can be observed from Fig. 7 that the boundary conditions have much more influence on mode shapes of conical shells than the type of variable thickness. Some circumferential mode shapes of the displacement w are presented in Fig. 8. From this figure combined with Fig. 7, the several mode shapes for specific m,n of the conical shells are given and it is believed that these figures can be helpful to understand the vibration behaviors of the conical shells.

Fig. 8The first four circumferential mode shapes of the conical shells; …, undeformed shell

The first four circumferential mode shapes of the conical shells; …, undeformed shell

a)n= 1

The first four circumferential mode shapes of the conical shells; …, undeformed shell

b)n=2

The first four circumferential mode shapes of the conical shells; …, undeformed shell

c)n= 3

The first four circumferential mode shapes of the conical shells; …, undeformed shell

d)n= 4

5. Conclusions

In this paper, the Haar wavelet method has been successfully extended to study vibration characteristics of truncated circular conical shells with variable thickness under different boundary conditions. Four sets of boundary conditions, that is, Cs-Cl, Cs-Sl, Ss-Cl, and Ss-Sl, are considered in the present study. The accuracy and fast convergence rate of the present method have been validated by convergence studies and comparisons with existing results in the literature. It is concluded that the present method is accurate and efficient for free vibration analysis of conical shells with variable thickness. The effects of geometrical parameters and boundary conditions on vibration characteristics were studied in detail. The advantages of this method consist in its simplicity, fast convergence and high precision. The present method can also be extended to the shells with elastic-support boundary conditions.

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About this article

Received
12 March 2016
Accepted
18 August 2016
Published
31 December 2016
SUBJECTS
Modal analysis and applications
Keywords
free vibration
conical shells
Haar wavelet method
variable thickness
Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB057405) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11372082).