Initial Response of a Fluid-Filled, Elastic, Circular, Cylindrical Shell to a Shock Wave in Acoustic Medium

Abstract

The initial response of a fluid-filled cylindrical shell immersed in an acoustic medium when struck by an acoustic shock moving in the external fluid is solved by means of integral transformations. Both the fluid contained in the shell and the exterior fluid are assumed to obey linear wave equations; the two fluids are assumed to possess dissimilar properties. The effects of transverse shear and rotatory inertia are included in the equations governing the shell motion. The solution is limited to the “front” region of the shell.