FREE-VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF CANTILEVER CYLINDRICAL TANKS

General free vibration characteristics of cantilevered circular cylindrical tanks are analyzed using the integral equations technique with the cubic spline functions. For computations, the partial differential equations for thin shallow shells as given by Flugge\'s have been employed after the addition of the inertia forces.<br /><br />The application of the method is illustrated with a numerical examples of tanks which are free at the top edge and fixed at the bottom. The results obtained by this method have been compared with the available results and a good agreement was found.<br />