Response of a Conical Shell to a Turbulent Boundary Layer Pressure Field

A thin truncated conical shell can be looked upon as a series of cylinders of varying diameters. This point of view, in conjunction with some well-known vibration properties of rectangular flat plates, circular flat plates, and cylinders, yields an approximate description of the vibration properties of conical shells. Comparison with available experimental results is encouraging. The same approximate approach is used in a slightly different form for estimating the vibration response of a conical shell to a turbulent boundary-layer pressure field. Response is found to increase gradually from the smaller end of the conical shell to the larger end.