Acoustic Radiation From Stiffened Cylindrical Shells With Constrained Layer Damping

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiongtao Cao ◽  
Hongxing Hua ◽  
Zhenguo Zhang

Acoustic radiation from cylindrical shells stiffened by two sets of rings, with constrained layer damping (CLD), is investigated theoretically. The governing equations of motion for the cylindrical shell with CLD are described on the basis of Sanders thin shell theory. Two sets of rings interact with the host cylindrical shell only through the normal line forces. The solutions are derived in the wavenumber domain and the stationary phase method is used to find an analytical expression of the far-field sound pressure. The effects of the viscoelastic material core, constrained layer and multiple loadings on sound pressure are illustrated. The helical wave spectra of sound pressure and the radial displacement clearly show the vibrational and acoustic characteristics of the stiffened cylindrical shell with CLD. It is shown that CLD can effectively suppress the radial vibration and reduce acoustic radiation.

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Y. Li ◽  
P. Wang ◽  
X. Zhu ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
W. B. Ye

A sound–structure interaction model is established to study the vibroacoustic characteristics of a semisubmerged cylindrical shell using the wave propagation approach (WPA). The fluid free surface effect is taken into account by satisfying the sound pressure release condition. Then, the far-field sound pressure is predicted with shell's vibration response using the stationary phase method. Modal coupling effect arises due to the presence of the fluid free surface. New approaches are proposed to handle this problem, i.e., diagonal coupling acoustic radiation model (DCARM) and column coupling acoustic radiation model (CCARM). New approaches are proved to be able to deal with the modal coupling problem efficiently with a good accuracy at a significantly reduced computational cost. Numerical results also indicate that the sound radiation characteristics of a semisubmerged cylindrical shell are quite different from those from the shell fully submerged in fluid. But the far-field sound pressure of a semisubmerged shell fluctuates around that from the shell ideally submerged in fluid. These new approaches can also be used to study the vibroacoustic problems of cylindrical shells partially coupled with fluid.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiongtao Cao ◽  
Chao Ma ◽  
Hongxing Hua

A general method for predicting acoustic radiation from multiple periodic structures is presented and a numerical solution is proposed to find the radial displacement of thick laminated cylindrical shells with sparse cross stiffeners in the wavenumber domain. Although this method aims at the sound radiation from a single stiffened cylindrical shell, it can be easily adapted to analyze the vibrational and sound characteristics of two concentric cylindrical shells or two parallel plates with complicated periodic stiffeners, such as submarine and ship hulls. The sparse cross stiffeners are composed of two sets of parallel rings and one set of longitudinal stringers. The acoustic power of large cylindrical shells above the ring frequency is derived in the wavenumber domain on the basis of the fact that sound power is focused on the acoustic ellipse. It transpires that a great many band gaps of wave propagation in the helical wave spectra of the radial displacement for stiffened cylindrical shells are generated by the rings and stringers. The acoustic power and input power of stiffened antisymmetric laminated cylindrical shells are computed and compared. The acoustic energy conversion efficiency of the cylindrical shells is less than 10%. The axial and circumferential point forces can also produce distinct acoustic power. The radial displacement patterns of the antisymmetric cylindrical shell with fluid loadings are illustrated in the space domain. This study would help to better understand the main mechanism of acoustic radiation from stiffened laminated composite shells, which has not been adequately addressed in its companion paper (Cao et al., 2012, “Acoustic Radiation From Shear Deformable Stiffened Laminated Cylindrical Shells,” J. Sound Vib., 331(3), pp. 651-670).


Author(s):  
C-J Liao ◽  
W-K Jiang ◽  
H Duan ◽  
Y Wang

An analytical study on the vibration and acoustic radiation from an axially stiffened cylindrical shell in water is presented. Supposing that the axial stiffeners interact with the cylindrical shell only through radial forces, the reaction forces on the shell from stiffeners can be expressed by additional impedance. The coupled vibration equation of the finite cylindrical shell with axial stiffening is derived; in this equation additional impedance caused by the axial stiffeners is added. As a result, the vibration and sound radiation of the shell are dependent on the mechanical impedance of the shell, the radiation sound impedance, and the additional impedance of the axial stiffeners. Based on the numerical simulation, it is found that the existence of axial stiffeners decreases the sound radiation and surface average velocity, whereas it increases the radiation factor. The characteristics of the acoustic radiation can be understood from the simulation with good results, which show that the presented methodology can be used to study the mechanism of the acoustic radiation of the complicated cylindrical shell and to optimize its design.


1962 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Miklowitz

The problem treated is that of an infinite free plate excited symmetrically by two equal and normally opposed step point-loads on its faces. The problem is equivalent to that of the surface normal point-load excitation of an infinite elastic layer, half the thickness of the plate, overlying a rigid half-space with lubricated contact. The formal solution is obtained from the equations of motion in linear elasticity with the aid of a double integral transform technique and residue theory. The stationary phase method, and known characteristics of the governing Rayleigh-Lamb frequency equation, are used to analyze and evaluate numerically the far field displacements. It is shown that the head of the disturbance is composed predominantly of the low-frequency long waves from the lowest mode of wave transmission.


Author(s):  
Ching-Yu Hsu ◽  
Chan-Yung Jen

The thin-walled stiffened cylindrical shells are usually applied in a submarine which takes the external pressure load, or in a boiler, pressure vessel or pipeline system which takes the internal pressure load. The thin-walled stiffened cylindrical shells under hydrodynamic loading are very sensitive to geometrical imperfections. This study is investigating an imperfect thin-walled stiffened cylindrical shell (out-of-round ratio is ψ = 2%) at a depth of 50m below the water level to see how it withstands sideward TNT 782 kg underwater explosion loading so as to understand its structural transient response. ABAQUS finite element software is used as an analysis tool in the current study, meanwhile, during the analysis process, the Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) condition is employed. The structural transient response results of stress and displacement time history of the imperfect thin-walled stiffened cylindrical shell can be used as a reference for the anti-underwater explosion analysis and design of future submersible vehicles, pressure hulls or related structural designs.


2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 2879-2882
Author(s):  
Xiao Wan Liu ◽  
Bin Liang

Effect of ring support position and geometrical dimension on the free vibration of ring-stiffened cylindrical shells is studied in this paper. The study is carried out by using Sanders shell theory. Based on the Rayleigh-Ritz method, the shell eigenvalue governing equation is derived. The present analysis is validated by comparing results with those in the literature. The vibration characteristics are obtained investigating two different boundary conditions with simply supported-simply supported and clamped-free as the examples. Key Words: Ring-stiffened cylindrical shell; Free vibration; Rayleigh-Ritz method.


2019 ◽  
Vol 283 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Fulin Zhou ◽  
Jun Fan ◽  
Bin Wang

Studying the interaction of sound with cylindrical shells immersed in water is essential and helpful to improving underwater target detection and classification algorithms. Elastic cylindrical shells often occur as part of double-layered shell and have been widely used in marine and aerospace area. Acoustic waves are easy to be transmitted through the outer shell to the interior especially at low frequencies, thus directly being scattered by the inner shell and the rings in water between double-layered shells. Therefore, the externally ring-stiffened cylindrical shell is investigated in this paper. An experiment was conducted that measured the acoustic scattering. A hybrid 2-D/3-D finite-element modelling technique is employed to numerically calculate the scattering characteristics. Good qualitative agreement is found between numerical calculations and experimental measurement. An approximate analytical expression is given explicitly to identify the Bragg wave trajectories in the frequency-angle spectrum. It also has been shown that the rings not only affect the dynamic response of shell and indirectly influence the exterior scattered field, but also become direct acoustic scatterers in water and increase the target cross section especially at oblique incidence.


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