Rahbar Ranji A, Rostami Hoseynabadi H
The Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 6, pp.1711-1718, 2012

Abstract : Cylindrical panels are structural elements widely used in engineering structures for high value of strength to weight ratio. Exact solutions of cylindrical panels are available only for a very limited number of cases. The main target of this paper is to utilize a semianalytical technique to study bending behavior of cylindrical panels with different boundary conditions under general distributed loading. The solution of the partial differential equations was reduced to an iterative sequential solution of a double set of ordinary differential equations using extended Kantorovich method. The competence and accuracy of the method is established by comparison with available results in the literature and finite element analyses which shows good agreement.

Keyword : Cylindrical panels; Bending analysis; Extended Kantorovich method