Timarci, TSoldatos, KP2024-06-122024-06-1220000022-0833https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004794513444https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14551/24577This paper studies the free vibrations of finite, closed, circular cylindrical shells, made of one or more monoclinic layers. The study is based on the Love-type version of a unified shear-deformable shell theory. This theory enables the trial and testing of different through-thickness transverse shear-strain distributions and, among them, strain distributions that do not involve the undesirable implications of the transverse-shear correction factors. For flexural vibrations, the analytical solution of the corresponding axisymmetric solution is obtained, as a particular case, when it is assumed that the free-vibration pattern is independent of the circumferential co-ordinate parameter. If the appropriate material simplifications are employed, the present analysis yields, as a further particular case, the corresponding free-vibration solution that has already been presented elsewhere for cross-ply laminated cylindrical shells.en10.1023/A:1004794513444info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessVibrationsContinuous SystemsLaminatesCompositesShellsBoundary ConditionsInterlaminar StressesState-Space ConceptCompositePlatesArticle371-3211230Q2WOS:0000852877000142-s2.0-0034143692Q2