Application of the extended Kantorovich method to the bending of clamped cylindrical panels

Applicability and performance of the extended Kantorovich method (EKM) to obtain highly accurate approximate closed form solution for bending analysis of a cylindrical panel is studied. Fully clamped panel subjected to both uniform and non-uniform loadings is considered. Based on the Love–Kirchhoff first approximation for thin shallow cylindrical panels, the governing equations of the problem in terms of three displacement components include a system of two second order and one forth order partial differential equations. The governing PDE system is converted to a double set of ODE systems by assuming separable functions for displacements together with utilization of the extended Kantorovich method. The resulted ODE systems are solved iteratively. In each iteration, exact closed form solutions are presented for both ODE systems. Rapid convergence and high accuracy of the method is shown for various examples. Both displacement and stress predictions show close agreement with other analytical and finite element analysis.