Dynamic stability analysis of laminated cylindrical shells considering fluid–structure interaction

This paper investigates the dynamic stability of laminated cylindrical shell submerged in a fluid. Assuming that the fluid is incompressible satisfying the Laplace equation, the coupling relationship between the external pressure from fluid acting on the cylindrical shell and the velocity potential function of the fluid is deduced by using Bernoulli law. Based on Kárman-Donnell’s thin shell theory, the governing equations for dynamic buckling of the composite laminated cylinder are established by introducing the constitutive relationship for laminated composite structures. Likely functions of the displacement and the stress function for cylindrical shell are proposed to construct Mathieu-Hill equation for dynamic stability of laminated cylindrical shell with fluid–structure interaction and the first three order dynamic instability regions are derived. A good agreement between the solutions from the proposed analysis and from the available literatures justified the accuracy and validity of the proposed analysis. With the established analysis, the influence of various parameters on the dynamic stability of cylinders are analyzed, from which a dynamic stability enhancement scheme suitable for composite laminated cylinders is summarized. It is found that the fluid–structure interaction will greatly reduce the excitation frequency of laminated cylindrical shells but has no effect on their vibration modes.