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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 43, Number 5, June10 2022 , pages 581-601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2022.43.5.581
 


Axisymmetric vibration analysis of a sandwich porous plate in thermal environment rested on Kerr foundation
Zhe Zhang, Qijian Yang and Cong Jin

 
Abstract
    The main objective of this research work is to investigate the free vibration behavior of annular sandwich plates resting on the Kerr foundation at thermal conditions. This sandwich configuration is composed of two FGM face sheets as coating layer and a porous GPLRC (GPL reinforced composite) core. It is supposed that the GPL nanofillers and the porosity coefficient vary continuously along the core thickness direction. To model closed-cell FG porous material reinforced with GPLs, Halpin-Tsai micromechanical modeling in conjunction with Gaussian-Random field scheme is used, while the Poisson's ratio and density are computed by the rule of mixtures. Besides, the material properties of two FGM face sheets change continuously through the thickness according to the power-law distribution. To capture fundamental frequencies of the annular sandwich plate resting on the Kerr foundation in a thermal environment, the analysis procedure is with the aid of Reddy's shear-deformation plate theory based high-order shear deformation plate theory (HSDT) to derive and solve the equations of motion and boundary conditions. The governing equations together with related boundary conditions are discretized using the generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method in the spatial domain. Numerical results are compared with those published in the literature to examine the accuracy and validity of the present approach. A parametric solution for temperature variation across the thickness of the sandwich plate is employed taking into account the thermal conductivity, the inhomogeneity parameter, and the sandwich schemes. The numerical results indicate the influence of volume fraction index, GPLs volume fraction, porosity coefficient, three independent coefficients of Kerr elastic foundation, and temperature difference on the free vibration behavior of annular sandwich plate. This study provides essential information to engineers seeking innovative ways to promote composite structures in a practical way.
 
Key Words
    FGM; kerr elastic foundation; porous graphene nanoplatelet reinforced composite; sandwich structures; thermal effects; vibration analysis
 
Address
Zhe Zhang:Architectural Engineering Institute, Rizhao Polytechnic, Rizhao,Shandong, 276826, China

Qijian Yang:Rizhao Tiantai Construction and Installation Engineering Co. LTD, Rizhao, Shandong, 276826, China

Cong Jin:Architectural Engineering Institute, Rizhao Polytechnic, Rizhao,Shandong, 276826, China
 

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