An analytical solution for a sandwich circular FGM plate coupled with piezoelectric layers under one-dimension heat conduction is presented in this paper. A nonlinear static problem is solved first to determine the initial stress state and pre-vibration deformations. By adding an incremental dynamic state to the pre-vibration state, the differential equations are derived. The role of thermal en...

Composite materials have been widely used in many advanced engineering structures. High specific strength, light weight, resistance to fatigue/corrosion and flexibility in design displayed by these materials have benefited many industries especially in the transportation area. Despite of all these benefits the susceptibility of composite materials to incur impact damage is well known and create...

Vibration is omnipotent, universal and multifaceted phenomena. It is an interdisciplinary field where physicist, mathematician and engineer interact in a closed loop. Vibration absorption is a method of adding a tuned springmass absorber to a system to create anti-resonance at a resonance of the original system. Most real-world phenomena exhibit nonlinear behavior. In these paper overviews of v...

This paper presents vibration analysis of an autoparametric pendulum-like mechanism subjected to harmonic excitation. To improve dynamics and control motions, a new suspension composed of a semiactive magnetorheological damper and a nonlinear spring is applied. The influence of essential parameters such as the nonlinear damping or stiffness on vibration, near the main parametric resonance regio...

Two robust nonlinear controllers along with a nonlinear observer have been developed in this study to control a 1D nonlinear flexible spacecraft. The first controller is based on dynamic inversion, while the second one is composed of dynamic inversion and µ-synthesis controllers. The extension of dynamic inversion approach to flexible spacecraft is impeded by the non-minimum phase characteristi...

Nonlinear vibration and postbuckling behavior of a single layer graphene sheet (SLGS) embedded in a polymer matrix aroused by the nonlinear van der Waals (vdW) forces are investigated using the Kirchhoff plate theory. The interfacial vdW forces are described by a nonlinear function in terms of the graphene deflection. Through harmonic balance method, the nonlinear relation between deflection am...