Frequency analysis of functionally graded material cylindrical shells with various volume fraction laws
In the current paper a frequency analysis is performed for functionally graded material (FGM) circular cylindrical shells. A comparative study of shell frequencies is given for algebraic polynomial, exponential, and trigonometric volume fraction laws. An FGM shell considered here is structured from two materials. Love's thin shell theory is utilized for strain-displacement and curvature-displacement relations. The Rayleigh-Ritz method is employed to derive the frequency equation in the form of eigenvalue problem. Natural frequencies are evaluated for a shell with simply supported edge conditions. The axial modal dependence is approximated by circular trigonometric functions. Theoretical results are compared with those available in the literature for the validity of the present methodology.