Transient Response of Soft Bonded Multilayered Shells
A computer code, based on finite difference techniques, has been developed to analyze finite length soft-bonded multilayered shells of revolution for dynamic loadings. The paper reviews the capabilities of the basic shell dynamics code used to analyze the individual shell layers and then discusses the development of the code for softbonded shells. The implementation of the computer code with emphasis on the bond modeling is also presented. Several numerical examples are included that provide a comparison with an analytical solution, illustrate various design parameter studies performed with the code and experimental-numerical data correlation studies. These examples serve to illustrate the validity and usefulness of the code plus the necessity of including bond deformation effects to properly analyze bonded shell structures.