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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 48, Number 3, August 2023 , pages 293-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2023.48.3.293
 


Nonlinear free vibration analysis of moderately thick viscoelastic plates with various geometrical properties
Nasrin Jafari and Mojtaba Azhari

 
Abstract
    In this paper, geometrically nonlinear free vibration analysis of Mindlin viscoelastic plates with various geometrical and material properties is studied based on the Von-Karman assumptions. A novel solution is proposed in which the nonlinear frequencies of time-dependent plates are predicted according to the nonlinear frequencies of plates not dependent on time. This method greatly reduces the cost of calculations. The viscoelastic properties obey the Boltzmann integral law with constant bulk modulus. The SHPC meshfree method is employed for spatial discretization. The Laplace transformation is used to convert equations from the time domain to the Laplace domain and vice versa. Solving the nonlinear complex eigenvalue problem in the Laplace-Carson domain numerically, the nonlinear frequencies, the nonlinear viscous damping frequencies, and the nonlinear damping ratios are verified and calculated for rectangular, skew, trapezoidal and circular plates with different boundary conditions and different material properties.
 
Key Words
    Mindlin viscoelastic plate; nonlinear complex eigenvalue problem; nonlinear damping ratio; nonlinear frequency; nonlinear viscous damping frequency
 
Address
Nasrin Jafari and Mojtaba Azhari:Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
 

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