The bending stability and vibrations of cantilever rectangular plates

This paper discusses the problems of the bending, stability and vibrations of cantilever rectangular plates by means of the variational method. In the text a good many calculating examples are illustrated.     

Basic equations of the theory of thermoviscoelastic plates with distributed sensors and actuators

The basic equations of the theory of thermoviscoelastic thin-walled plates with piezoelectric sensors and actuators under monoharmonic mechanical and electric loading are derived using the Kirchhoff–Love hypotheses. The thermomechanical behavior of passive and piezoactive materials is described using the concept of complex characteristics. Methods of solving nonlinear problems of active damping of thermomechanical vibrations of plates with sensors and actuators are considered. The effect of dissipative heating on the damping of axisymmetric vibrations of a thermoviscoelastic solid circular plate is analyzed as an example     

Active vibration control of thin constrained composite damping plates with double piezoelectric layers

Vibrations and the damping behaviour of thin constrained composite plates with double piezoelectric layers are analytically explored by using Fourier transformation and classical laminated plate theory. Electric potential equations in the double piezoelectric layers are solved with respect to closed and open circuit boundary conditions, an exterior dielectric slab and active control. The natural frequencies and loss factors of the constrained smart composite plates with passive control methods are not notably changed in comparison with those of the constrained composite plates without piezoelectric effects since vibrational energy does not efficiently convert to electrical energy. The loss factors of the composite plates with active constrained damping increase and the natural frequencies have significant variations as the proportional derivative gains increase. Transverse displacement power spectra of the piezoelectric composite plates with active control are compared with those of the piezoelectric composite plates with passive control showing that active control has the best suppression performance of vibrations for the constrained laminated plates with double piezoelectric layers. Radial power spectral density, phase angles and cylindrical-wave power spectral density are calculated. Interesting patterns of wave propagation are explained when plane wave expansion is used to obtain Bessel cylindrical waves.     

Nonstationary Vibrations of Plates Under Periodic Loading

The problem on the nonstationary vibrations of plates under periodic loading is formulated with regard for the damping factor and the initial conditions. A technique for solution of the problem is proposed. It is based on the method of integral Laplace transformations, the theory of residues, and the method of asymptotic approximations. Examples related to the change of the extinction coefficient are considered for different plate materials. A general formula for bending of the plate has been derived     

Active damping of the vibrations of a plate using sensor data: effect of boundary conditions

A new approach is followed to study the effect of mixed mechanical boundary conditions on the effectiveness of active damping of the forced resonant vibrations of thermoviscoelastic orthotropic plates. The problem is solved by the Bubnov–Galerkin method. Formulas for the voltage that should be applied to the actuator to damp the first vibration mode are derived. It is shown that the mechanical boundary conditions, the dissipative properties of the material, and the dimenstions of the sensors and actuators have a strong effect on the effectiveness of active damping of the vibrations of plates     

Vibrations of polygonal plates with various boundary conditions

The bending vibrations of polygonal (L-shaped) plates with different shapes and boundary conditions are studied. The natural frequencies are calculated using the inverse-iteration and Kantorovich-Vlasov methods. To take the configuration of the domain into account, the fictitious domain method and an analog of the force method of structural mechanics are used. Different trends in the dependence of the lowest natural frequency of an L-shaped plate on its geometry are illustrated for different boundary conditions.Acorrelation between the extreme values of the bending frequency and some relations for the energy characteristics of the plate is established __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 63–72, May 2007.     

Statics and dynamics of simply supported polygonal Reissner-Mindlin plates by analogy

Summary Free and forced vibrations of moderately thick, transversely isotropic plates loaded by lateral forces and hydrostatic (isotropic) in-plane forces are analyzed in the frequency domain. Influences of shear, rotatory inertia, transverse normal stress and of a two-parameter Pasternak foundation are taken into account. First-order shear-deformation theories of the Reissner–Mindlin type are considered. These theories are written in a unifying manner using tracers to account for the various influencing parameters. In the case of a general polygonal shape of the plate and hard-hinged support conditions, the Reissner-Mindlin deflections are shown to coincide with the results of the classical Kirchhoff theory of thin plates. The background Kirchhoff plate, which has effective (frequency-dependent) stiffness and mass, is loaded by effective lateral and in-plane forces and by imposed fictitious “thermal” curvatures. These deflections are further split into deflections of linear elastic prestressed membranes with effective stiffness, mass and load. This analogy for the deflections is confirmed by utilizing D'Alembert's dynamic principle in the formulation of Lagrange, which yields an integral equation. Furthermore, the analogy is extended in order to include shear forces and bending moments. It is shown that in the static case, with no in-plane prestress taken into account, the stress resultants for certain groups of Reissner-type shear-deformable plates are identical with those resulting from the Kirchhoff theory of the background. Finally, results taken from the literature for simply supported rectangular and polygonal Mindlin plates are yielded and verified by analogy in a quick and simple manner. Received 29 September 1998; accepted for publication 22 June 1999     

Experimental and theoretical study on large amplitude vibrations of clamped rubber plates

In this paper, the large amplitude forced vibrations of thin rectangular plates made of different types of rubbers are investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The excitation is provided by a concentrated transversal harmonic load. Clamped boundary conditions at the edges are considered, while rotary inertia, geometric imperfections and shear deformation are neglected since they are negligible for the studied cases. The von Kármán nonlinear strain-displacement relationships are used in the theoretical study; the viscoelastic behaviour of the material is modelled using the Kelvin-Voigt model, which introduces nonlinear damping. An equivalent viscous damping model has also been created for comparison. In-plane pre-loads applied during the assembly of the plate to the frame are taken into account. In the experimental study, two rubber plates with different material and thicknesses have been considered; a silicone plate and a neoprene plate. The plates have been fixed to a heavy rectangular metal frame with an initial stretching. The large amplitude vibrations of the plates in the spectral neighbourhood of the first resonance have been measured at various harmonic force levels. A laser Doppler vibrometer has been used to measure the plate response. Maximum vibration amplitude larger than three times the thickness of the plate has been achieved, corresponding to a hardening type nonlinear response. Experimental frequency-response curves have been very satisfactorily compared to numerical results. Results show that the identified retardation time increases when the excitation level is increased, similar to the equivalent viscous damping but to a lesser extent due to its nonlinear nature. The nonlinearity introduced by the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelasticity model is found to be not sufficient to capture the dissipation present in the rubber plates during large amplitude vibrations.     

Active damping of the resonant vibrations of a flexible viscoelastic rectangular plate

The active damping of the resonant vibrations of a hinged flexible viscoelastic rectangular plate with distributed piezoelectric sensors and actuators is considered. It is shown that it is possible to considerably decrease the amplitude of resonant vibrations by choosing the appropriate feedback factor. The collective effect of geometrical nonlinearity and dissipative properties of the material on the effectiveness of active damping of the resonance vibrations of rectangular plates with sensors and actuators is analyzed     

Active damping of vibrations of plates subject to unknown pressure

An approach to the active damping of the forced resonant vibrations of orthotropic thermoviscoelastic plates with distributed sensors and actuators is proposed. The mechanical load is assumed unknown and is determined from the sensors’ indications. The problem of active damping of an isotropic thermoviscoelastic rectangular plate with hinged edges is solved as an example. A formula for the voltage to be applied to the actuator to damp the forced vibrations in the first mode is derived. The effect of the dimensions of the sensor and actuator and the dissipative properties of the materials on the effectiveness of active damping is studied     

Damping for large-amplitude vibrations of plates and curved panels,Part 1: Modeling and experiments

Theoretical and experimental non-linear vibrations of thin rectangular plates and curved panels subjected to out-of-plane harmonic excitation are investigated. Experiments have been performed on isotropic and laminated sandwich plates and panels with supported and free boundary conditions. A sophisticated measuring technique has been developed to characterize the non-linear behavior experimentally by using a Laser Doppler Vibrometer and a stepped-sine testing procedure. The theoretical approach is based on Donnell's non-linear shell theory (since the tested plates are very thin) but retaining in-plane inertia, taking into account the effect of geometric imperfections. A unified energy approach has been utilized to obtain the discretized non-linear equations of motion by using the linear natural modes of vibration. Moreover, a pseudo arc-length continuation and collocation scheme has been used to obtain the periodic solutions and perform bifurcation analysis. Comparisons between numerical simulations and the experiments show good qualitative and quantitative agreement. It is found that, in order to simulate large-amplitude vibrations, a damping value much larger than the linear modal damping should be considered. This indicates a very large and non-linear increase of damping with the increase of the excitation and vibration amplitude for plates and curved panels with different shape, boundary conditions and materials.     

Basic relations of the theory of thermoviscoelastic plates with distributed sensors

The basic relations of the thermomechanics of thin-walled viscoelastic plates with distributed piezoelectric sensors under monogarmonic mechanical loading are presented. To describe the thermomechanical behavior of materials, the concept of complex characteristics is used. Numerical and variational methods are used to study the forced resonant vibrations of viscoelastic plates with distributed piezoelectric sensors. The effect of dissipative heating on the readings of the sensors of a circular viscoelastic plate undergoing axisymmetric resonant bending vibrations is analyzed as an example     

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING AND ROBUST VIBRATION CONTROL OF TWO-HINGED PLATE USING BONDED PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS AND ACTUATORS

Active vibration control for a kind of two-hinged plate is developed in this paper. A finite element model for the hinged plate integrated with distributed piezoelectric sensors and actuators is derived, including bending and torsional modes of vibration. In this model, the hinges are simplified as regular plate elements to facilitate operation. The state space representations for bending and torsional vibrations are obtained. Based on two low-order models of the bending and torsional motion, two H ∞ robust controllers are designed for suppressing the vibrations of the bending and torsional modes, respectively. The simulation results indicate the effectiveness and feasibility of the designed H ∞ controllers. The vibration magnitudes of the low-order modes can be reduced without affecting the high frequency modes.     

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of circular plates with varying thickness

The BEM is developed for nonlinear free and forced vibrations of circular plates with variable thickness undergoing large deflections. General boundary conditions are considered, which may be also nonlinear. The problem is formulated in terms of displacements. The solution is based on the concept of the analog equation, according to which the two coupled nonlinear differential equations with variable coefficients pertaining to the in-plane radial and transverse deformation are converted to two uncoupled linear ones of a substitute beam with unit axial and unit bending stiffness, respectively, under fictitious quasi-static load distributions. Numerical examples are presented which illustrate the method and demonstrate its accuracy.     

多层正交异性矩形薄板弯曲振动稳定解析解

构造了带有补充项的双重正弦傅里叶级数通解来求解各种边界条件的多层正交各向异性矩形薄板的弯曲、振动和稳定问题.将坐标轴取在中性面上,求出用挠度表示的应力表达式,然后由横截面上每单位宽度的应力合成板的内力;再将层合板的内力代入板的平衡方程中得到板的控制方程,将多层板的物理参数折算为等价的单层板物理参数;最后联立控制方程与边界条件,求得未知量的系数并代入本文的通解中.本文的通解不需要叠加即可求解各种边界条件的板的弯曲、振动和稳定问题;现有的对于单层板的研究都可以用本文的方法拓展到多层板领域;对于复杂边界条件的板,也可以使用该通解分析.     

Enhanced damping of a cantilever beam by axial parametric excitation

A uniform cantilever beam under the effect of a time-periodic axial force is investigated. The beam structure is discretized by a finite-element approach. The linearised equations of motion describing the planar bending vibrations of the beam structure lead to a system with time-periodic stiffness coefficients. The stability of the system is investigated by a numerical method based on Floquet’s theorem and an analytical approach resulting from a first-order perturbation. It is demonstrated that the parametrically excited beam structure exhibits enhanced damping properties, when excited near a specific parametric combination resonance frequency. A certain level of the forcing amplitude has to be exceeded to achieve the damping effect. Upon exceeding this value, the additional artificial damping provided to the beam is significant and works best for suppression of vibrations of the first vibrational mode of the cantilever beam.     

Analysis of free non-linear vibrations of a viscoelastic plate under the conditions of different internal resonances

Non-linear free damped vibrations of a rectangular plate described by three non-linear differential equations are considered when the plate is being under the conditions of the internal resonance one-to-one, and the internal additive or difference combinational resonances. Viscous properties of the system are described by the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of the order smaller than unit. The functions of the in-plane and out-of-plane displacements are determined in terms of eigenfunctions of linear vibrations with the further utilization of the method of multiple scales, in so doing the amplitude functions are expanded into power series in terms of the small parameter and depend on different time scales, but the fractional derivative is represented as a fractional power of the differentiation operator. It is assumed that the order of the damping coefficient depends on the character of the vibratory process and takes on the magnitude of the amplitudes’ order. The time-dependence of the amplitudes in the form of incomplete integrals of the first kind is obtained. Using the constructed solutions, the influence of viscosity on the energy exchange mechanism is analyzed which is intrinsic to free vibrations of different structures being under the conditions of the internal resonance. It is shown that each mode is characterized by its damping coefficient which is connected with the natural frequency of this mode by the exponential relationship with a negative fractional exponent. It is shown that viscosity may have a twofold effect on the system: a destabilizing influence producing unsteady energy exchange, and a stabilizing influence resulting in damping of the energy exchange mechanism.     

Transversal vibrations of double-plate systems

This paper presents an analytical and numerical analysis of free and forced transversal vibrations of an elastically connected double-plate system. Analytical solutions of a system of coupled partial differential equations, which describe corresponding dynamical free and forced processes, are obtained using Bernoulli’s particular integral and Lagrange’s method of variation constants. It is shown that one-mode vibrations correspond to two-frequency regime for free vibrations induced by initial conditions and to three-frequency regime for forced vibrations induced by one-frequency external excitation and corresponding initial conditions. The analytical solutions show that the elastic connection between plates leads to the appearance of two-frequency regime of time function, which corresponds to one eigenamplitude function of one mode, and also that the time functions of different vibration modes are uncoupled, for each shape of vibrations. It has been proven that for both elastically connected plates, for every pair of m and n, two possibilities for appearance of the resonance dynamical states, as well as for appearance of the dynamical absorption, are present. Using the MathCad program, the corresponding visualizations of the characteristic forms of the plate middle surfaces through time are presented.The English text was polished by Keren Wang.     

Nonlinear damped vibrations of simply-supported rectangular sandwich plates

The nonlinear, forced, damped vibrations of simply-supported rectangular sandwich plates with a viscoelastic core are studied. The general, nonlinear dynamic equations of asymmetrical sandwich plates are derived using the virtual work principle. Damping is taken into account by modelling the viscoelastic core as a Voigt-Kelvin solid. The harmonic balance method is employed for solving the equations of motion. The influence of the thickness of the layers and material properties on the nonlinear response of the plates is studied.     

Modified Mindlin plate theory and shear locking-free finite element formulation

The basic equations of the Mindlin theory are specified as starting point for its modification in which total deflection and rotations are split into pure bending deflection and shear deflection with bending angles of rotation, and in-plane shear angles. The equilibrium equations of the former displacement field are split into one partial differential equation for flexural vibrations. In the latter case two differential equations for in-plane shear vibrations are obtained, which are similar to the well-known membrane equations. Rectangular shear locking-free finite element for flexural vibrations is developed. For in-plane shear vibrations ordinary membrane finite elements can be used. Application of the modified Mindlin theory is illustrated in a case of simply supported square plate. Problems are solved analytically and by FEM and the obtained results are compared with the relevant ones available in the literature.