In this paper, thermo-elastic analysis of a rotating thick truncated conical shell subjected to the temperature gradient, internal pressure and external pressure is presented. Given the existence of shear stress in the conical shell due to thickness change along the axial direction, the governing equations are obtained based on first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). These equations are so...

In the present work, a study of thermoelastic analysis of a rotating thick truncated conical shell subjected to the temperature gradient and non-uniform internal pressure is carried out. The formulation is based on first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT), which accounts for the transverse shear. The governing equations, derived using minimum total potential energy principle, are solved, usi...

An efficient spectral element (SE) with electric potential degrees of freedom (DOF) is proposed to investigate the static electromechanical responses of a piezoelectric bimorph for its actuator and sensor functions. A sublayer model based on the piecewise linear approximation for the electric potential is used to describe the nonlinear distribution of electric potential through the thickness of...

Piezoelectric materials possess excellent electromechanical coupling characteristics, which are functional and suitable in structural vibration control. This study investigates the active control of free forced for piezoelectric-integrated functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) plate using finite element method (FEM). Based on first-order shear deformation theory (F...

This work presents an analytical study of the parametric instability cylindrical panels containing functionally graded porous exposed to static and dynamic periodic axial loads under simply supported boundary conditions. Based on Hamilton’s principle, governing equation motion by using first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) has been obtained. By applying Galerkin technique, excitation freq...

In this paper, the vibration analysis of a partially constrained layer damping plate subjected to moving loads is investigated. addition, first four order loss factor system optimized with location as design variable. The equations motion are derived through Lagrange equation based on shear deformation theory (FSDT). Next, using an extended Rayleigh–Ritz solution together penalty method express...

The present study deals with the development of a prediction model to investigate impact temperature and moisture on vibration response skew laminated composite sandwich (LCS) plate using artificial neural network (ANN) technique. Firstly, finite element is generated incorporate hygro-elastic thermo-elastic characteristics LCS first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). Graphite-epoxy laminate...

This paper presents a unified solution method to investigate the free vibration behaviors of laminated composite conical shell, cylindrical and an annular plate with variable thickness arbitrary boundary conditions using Haar wavelet discretization (HWDM). Theoretical formulation is established based on first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT), displacement components are extended series in ...

In this study, based on nonlocal differential constitutive relations of Eringen, the first order shear deformation theory of plates (FSDT) is reformulated for vibration of nano-plates considering the initial geometric imperfection. The dynamic analog of the von Kármán nonlinear strain-displacement relations is used to derive equations of motion for the nano-plate. When dealing with nonlineariti...