Vibration Analysis of a Transversely Isotropic Hollow Cylinder by Using the Matrix Frobenius Method

The aim of the paper is to study three-dimensional free vibrations in a homogeneous transversely isotropic, thermoelastic hollow cylinder, which is initially undeformed and at uniform temperature. The surfaces of the cylinder are subjected to stress free and thermally insulated or isothermal boundary conditions. The displacement potential functions have been introduced in the equations of motion and heat conduction to decouple purely shear and longitudinal motions. The purely transverse wave is not affected by thermal field. By using the method of separation of variables, the system of governing partial differential equations is reduced to four second-order coupled ordinary differential equations in radial coordinate. The Matrix Frobenius method of the extended power series is employed to obtain the solution in radial direction. To illustrate the analytic results, the numerical solution of various relations and equations has been carried out to compute the lowest frequency, frequency shift and damping factor of vibrations in a hollow cylinder of zinc material with MATLAB software programming. The computer simulated results have been presented graphically.