%0 Journal Article %T Non-linear behaviour of free-edge shallow spherical shells: Effect of the geometry %+ Dynamique des Fluides et Acoustique (DFA) %+ Laboratoire de Mécanique des Structures et des Systèmes Couplés (LMSSC) %A Touzé, Cyril %A Thomas, Olivier %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0020-7462 %J International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics %I Elsevier %V 41 %N 5 %P 678-692 %8 2006-06 %D 2006 %R 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2005.12.004 %K Shallow spherical shells %K Hardening/softening behaviour %K Non-linear normal modes %K Internal resonance %Z Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Mechanical engineering [physics.class-ph] %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Mechanical engineering [physics.class-ph]Journal articles %X Non-linear vibrations of free-edge shallow spherical shells are investigated, in order to predict the trend of non-linearity (hardening/softening behaviour) for each mode of the shell, as a function of its geometry. The analog for thin shallow shells of von Kármán's theory for large deflection of plates is used. The main difficulty in predicting the trend of non-linearity relies in the truncation used for the analysis of the partial differential equations (PDEs) of motion. Here, non-linear normal modes through real normal form theory are used. This formalism allows deriving the analytical expression of the coefficient governing the trend of non-linearity. The variation of this coefficient with respect to the geometry of the shell (radius of curvature R, thickness h and outer diameter 2 a) is then numerically computed, for axisymmetric as well as asymmetric modes. Plates (obtained as R → ∞) are known to display a hardening behaviour, whereas shells generally behave in a softening way. The transition between these two types of non-linearity is clearly studied, and the specific role of 2:1 internal resonances in this process is clarified. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. %G English %2 https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00838885/document %2 https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00838885/file/2006-IJNLM_shellGeometryHardSoftB.pdf %L hal-00838885 %U https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00838885 %~ ENSTA %~ CNAM %~ ENSTA_UME %~ LMSSC-CNAM