Dynamical behavior of viscoelastic cylindrical shells under axial pressures

The hypotheses of the Karman-Donnell theory of thin shells with large deflections and the Boltzmann laws for isotropic linear, viscoelastic materials, the constitutive equations of shallow shells are first derived. Then the governing equations for the deflection and stress function are formulated by using the procedure similar to establishing the Karman equations of elastic thin plates. Introducing proper assumptions, an approximate theory for viscoelastic cylindrical shells under axial pressures can be obtained. Finally, the dynamical behavior is studied in detail by using several numerical methods. Dynamical properties, such ns, hyperchaos, chaos, strange attractor, limit cycle etc., are discovered.