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Shock and Vibration
Volume 15, Issue 3-4, Pages 335-343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/328080

Chaotic Vibrations of Closed Cylindrical Shells in a Temperature Field

A.V. Krysko,1 J. Awrejcewicz,2 E.S. Kuznetsova,1 and V.A. Krysko1

1Saratov State Technical University, Department of Higher Mathematics, 77 Polytechnicheskaya St, 410054, Saratov, Russia
2Technical University of Lodz, Department of Automatics and Biomechanics, Stefanowskiego 1/15, 90-924 Lodz, Poland

Received 29 April 2007; Revised 29 April 2007

Copyright © 2008 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Complex vibrations of cylindrical shells embedded in a temperature field are studied, and the Bubnov-Galerkin method in higher approximations and in the Fourier representation is applied. Both lack and influence of temperature field on the shell dynamics are analyzed.