Chaotic vibration of a liquid-filled thin cylindrical shell
- Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Abiko, Chiba (Japan). Abiko Research Lab.
Recently, a large number of thin walled cylindrical tanks have been widely used, such as oil-storage tanks, and LMFBR primary components. To assess the safety of these systems against earthquakes, it is of great technical importance to clarify the fluid-coupled vibration characteristics of the systems subjected to certain kinds of dynamic loads. This paper describes an experimental study on the chaos of a partially liquid-filled cylindrical tank under horizontal excitation. The test cylinder with a mean radius of 170 mm was made of polyester film with a nominal thickness of 0.188 mm which was lap-joined along a longitudinal seam and bonded with an aluminum end plate along one edge. Shaking table tests were conducted in order to investigate the dynamic characteristics of the shell response. Several types of limit cycles were observed at lower accelerations, and the instability phenomenon, which jumped at some excitation frequencies, occurred for acceleration amplitudes above a critical value. Finally, at higher excitation accelerations, the shell responses became chaotic. The occurrence of the chaos was recognized by the time history, Poincare map, phase trajectory, power spectrum and a positive Lyapunov exponent calculated from the orbits in the three dimensional phase space. In order to visualize the strange attractor, phase portraits were constructed by embedding the trajectories in the phase space.
- OSTI ID:
- 403254
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960706--; ISBN 0-7918-1784-9
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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