Chebyshev Collocation Solutions for Vibration Analysis of Circular Cylindrical Shells with Arbitrary Boundary Conditions

This paper applies the Chebyshev collocation method to finding accurate solutions of natural frequencies for circular cylindrical shells. The shells with different boundary conditions are considered in the parametric study. By using the method to solve the coupled differential equations of motion governing the vibration of the shell, numerical results are obtained from the algebraic eigenvalue equation using the Chebyshev differentiation matrices. And the results satisfy both the geometric and force boundary conditions. Based on the numerical examples, the proposed method shows its capacity and reliability in predicting accurate frequency results for circular cylindrical shells with various boundary conditions as compared to some exact solutions available in the literature.