Asymmetric Large Deformation Superharmonic and Subharmonic Resonances of Spiral Stiffened Imperfect FG Cylindrical Shells Resting on Generalized Nonlinear Viscoelastic Foundations

This paper is devoted to superharmonic and subharmonic behavior investigation of imperfect functionally graded (FG) cylindrical shells with external FG spiral stiffeners under large amplitude excitations. The structure is embedded within a generalized non-linear viscoelastic foundation, which is composed of a two-parameter Winkler-Pasternak foundation augmented by a Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic model with a nonlinear cubic stiffness, to account for the vibration hardening/softening phenomena and damping considerations. The von Kaman strain-displacement kinematic non linearity is employed in the constitutive laws of the shell and stiffeners. The external spiral stiffeners of the cylindrical shell are modeled according to the smeared stiffener technique. The coupled governing equations are solved by using Galerkin's method in conjunction with the stress function concept. The multiple scales method is utilized to detect the subharmonic and superharmonic resonances and the frequency-amplitude relations of the 1/3 and 1/2 subharmonic and 3/1 and 2/1 superharmonic resonances of the system. Finally, the influences of the stiffeners helical angles, foundation type, coefficient of the nonlinear elastic foundation, material distribution, and excitation amplitude on the system resonances are investigated comprehensively.