Free vibration analysis of stiffened laminated plates

Based on the semi-analytical solution of the state-vector equation theory, a novel mathematical model for free vibration analysis of stiffened laminated plates is developed by separate consideration of plate and stiffeners. The method accounts for the compatibility of displacements and stresses on the interface between the plate and stiffeners, the transverse shear deformation, and naturally the rotary inertia of the plate and stiffeners. Meanwhile, there is no restriction on the thickness of plate and the height of stiffeners. To demonstrate the excellent predictive capability of the model, several examples are analyzed numerically. The model presented in this paper can also be easily modified to solve the problems of stiffened piezolaminated plates and shells, or plates and shells with piezoelectric material patches.     

智能板结构振动特性的半解析法

为智能板结构振动特性的分析提出了一种半解析法.根据压电材料修正后的Hellinger-Re issner变分原理,推导了压电材料的Ham ilton ian等参元.智能板结构的基体板和压电块(压电传感器或驱动器)被看作独立的三维体,并用Ham ilton ian等参元分别离散板和压电块.考虑到板和压电块在连接界面上广义应力和广义位移的连续性,联立板和压电块的方程得到整个结构的方程组.数值实例的分析结果证明了方法的可靠性.     

Modified H-R mixed variational principle for magnetoelectroelastic bodies and state-vector equation

Based upon the Hellinger-Reissner (H-R) mixed variational principle for three-dimensional elastic bodies, the modified H-R mixed variational theorem for magnetoelectroelastic bodies was established. The state-vector equation of magnetoelectroelastic plates was derived from the proposed theorem by performing the variational operations. To lay a theoretical basis of the semi-analytical solution applied with the magnetoelectroelastic plates, the state-vector equation for the discrete element in plane was proposed through the use of the proposed principle. Finally, it is pointed out that the modified H-R mixed variational principle for pure elastic, single piezoelectric or single piezomagnetic bodies are the special cases of the present variational theorem.     

Hamiltonian parametric element and semi-analytical solution for smart laminated plates

Based on the Hellinger-Reissner (H-R) mixed variational principle for piezoelectric material, a unified 4-node Hamiltonian isoparametric element of anisotropy piezoelectric material is established. A new semi-analytical solution for the natural vibration of smart laminated plates and the transient response of the laminated cantilever with piezoelectric patch is presented. The major steps of mathematical model are as follows: the piezoelectric layer and host layer of laminated plate are considered as unattached three-dimensional bodies and discretized by the Hamiltonian isoparametric elements. The control equation of whole structure is derived by considering the compatibility of generalized displacements and generalized stresses on the interface between layers. There is no restriction for the side-face geometrical boundaries, the thickness and the number of layers of plate by the use of the present isoparametric element. Present method has wide application area.     

弹性体的正则方程和加筋板的固有频率分析

应用弹性力学的Hamilton正则方程理论和其半解析法，为整体加筋板的固有频率分析提出了一种新颖的数学模型. 采用同一种平面元素离散板和加强筋，并分别建立板和加强筋的线性方程组. 考虑到板和加强筋连接界面上应力和位移的连续性，联立板和加强筋的方程得到全结构的方程组和求解固有频率的特征方程. 主要优越性表现为：结构的旋转惯性、剪切变形等都得到了考虑，且不限制结构的板厚度和加强筋的高度. 多个数值实例的收敛分析和结果证明了方法是可靠的. 该方法很容易被修改用来分析加筋壳、加筋压电材料层合板或带有压电材料传感器和驱动器块的板壳问题.     

State-vector equation with damping and vibration analysis of laminates

Based on the modified mixed Hellinger-Reissner(H-R)variational principle for elastic bodies with damping,the state-vector equation with parameters is directionally derived from the principle.A new solution for the harmonic vibration of simply supported rectangular laminates with damping is proposed by using the precise integration method and Muller method.The general solutions for the free vibration of underdamping,critical damp and overdamping of composite laminates are given simply in terms of the linear damping vibration theory.The effect of viscous damping force on the vibration of com- posite laminates is investigated through numerical examples.The state-vector equation theory and its application areas are extended.     

弹性力学Hamilton方法广义解的适定性

首先引入了Hamilton体系中平面应力弹性力学问题正则方程的Galerkin变分方程,证明了Galerkin变分方程和目前文献中所用的Ritz变分方程的等价性,以及相应广义解的适定性,从而为目前的数值方法提供了理论基础。从证明过程中可以看到广义解实际上是Ritz变分泛函的一个鞍点。     

功能梯度压电圆板自由振动问题的三维精确分析

本文对周边为广义刚性滑动和广义简支两种边界条件下的功能梯度压电材料圆板自由振动问题进行分析。根据轴对称横观各向同性压电材料基本方程,并利用有限Hankel变换得到了功能梯度压电材料圆板的状态空间方程。假设材料的机械和电学性质均沿板厚方向按统一的指数函数形式梯度分布,从而获得了周边为广义刚性滑动和广义弹性简支两种边界条件下功能梯度压电圆板自由振动问题的三维精确频率方程,该方程是一个关于自由振动频率的超越方程,通过求解该超越方程可得到在不同板厚以及不同的材料性质梯度变化情况下的圆板自由振动频率值,结果表明在相同的材料性质梯度变化情况下频率均随着板厚增加而增大,而在相同的板厚情况下频率则随材料性质梯度变化指数的增大而减小的结论。     

Analytical solution for the cylindrical bending vibration of piezoelectric composite plates

An analytical solution for the cylindrical bending vibrations of linear piezoelectric laminated plates is obtained by extending the Stroh formalism to the generalized plane strain vibrations of piezoelectric materials. The laminated plate consists of homogeneous elastic or piezoelectric laminae of arbitrary thickness and width. Fourier basis functions for the mechanical displacements and electric potential that identically satisfy the equations of motion and the charge equation of electrostatics are used to solve boundary value problems via the superposition principle. The coefficients in the infinite series solution are determined from the boundary conditions at the edges and continuity conditions at the interfaces between laminae, which are satisfied in the sense of Fourier series. The formulation admits different boundary conditions at the edges of the laminated piezoelectric composite plate. Results for laminated elastic plates with either distributed or segmented piezoelectric actuators are presented for different sets of boundary conditions at the edges.     

Application of active piezoelectric patches in controlling the dynamic response of a thin rectangular plate under a moving mass

The governing differential equation of motion for an undamped thin rectangular plate with a number of bonded piezoelectric patches on its surface and arbitrary boundary conditions is derived using Hamilton’s principle. A moving mass traveling on an arbitrary trajectory acts as an external excitation for the system. The effect of the moving mass inertia is considered using all the out-of-plane translational acceleration components. The method of eigenfunction expansion is used to transform the equation of motion into a number of coupled ordinary differential equations. A classical closed-loop optimal control algorithm is employed to suppress the dynamic response of the system, determining the required voltage of each piezoactuator at any time interval. In a numerical example for a simply supported square plate under two different loading paths, the effect of the mass velocity and mass weight of the moving load on the dynamic behavior of the uncontrolled system is investigated. The results show that, depending on the path of the moving mass, the inertia effect is very important, causing different behaviors of the system. In addition, the number of vibrational modes involved in determining the dynamic response of the system is crucial. The inertia effect is more important for an orbiting mass loading case compared to the case in which the moving mass is traversing the plate on a straight line. A number of equally spaced piezo patches are used on the lower surface of the plate to control the displacement of the center point of the plate. The implemented control mechanism proves to be very efficient in suppressing the near resonant dynamic response of the system, requiring fairly low levels of voltage for each patch. Increasing the area of the employed piezo patches would reduce the required maximum voltage for controlling the response of the system.     

Three-dimensional free vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric annular plates on elastic foundations

Three-dimensional free vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric (FGPM) annular plates resting on Pasternak foundations with different boundary conditions is presented. The material properties are assumed to have an exponent-law variation along the thickness. A semi-analytical approach which makes use of state-space method in thickness direction and one-dimensional differential quadrature method in radial direction is utilized to obtain the influences of the Winkler and shearing layer elastic coefficients of the foundations on the non-dimensional natural frequencies of functionally graded piezoelectric annular plates. The analytical solution in the thickness direction can be acquired using the state-space method and approximate solution in the radial direction can be obtained using the one-dimensional differential quadrature method. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the convergency and accuracy of the present method. The influences of the material property graded index, circumferential wave number and thickness of the annular plate on the dynamic behavior are also investigated. Since three-dimensional free vibration analysis of FGPM annular plates on elastic foundations has not been implemented before, the new results can be used as benchmark solutions for future researches.     

2D dynamic analysis of cracks and interface cracks in piezoelectric composites using the SBFEM

The dynamic stress and electric displacement intensity factors of impermeable cracks in homogeneous piezoelectric materials and interface cracks in piezoelectric bimaterials are evaluated by extending the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM). In this method, a piezoelectric plate is divided into polygons. Each polygon is treated as a scaled boundary finite element subdomain. Only the boundaries of the subdomains need to be discretized with line elements. The dynamic properties of a subdomain are represented by the high order stiffness and mass matrices obtained from a continued fraction solution, which is able to represent the high frequency response with only 3–4 terms per wavelength. The semi-analytical solutions model singular stress and electric displacement fields in the vicinity of crack tips accurately and efficiently. The dynamic stress and electric displacement intensity factors are evaluated directly from the scaled boundary finite element solutions. No asymptotic solution, local mesh refinement or other special treatments around a crack tip are required. Numerical examples are presented to verify the proposed technique with the analytical solutions and the results from the literature. The present results highlight the accuracy, simplicity and efficiency of the proposed technique.     

Plate-Like Smart Structures: Reduced Models and Numerical Simulations

In this paper asymptotic models describing the mechanical and electric equilibrium state of two types of smart structures are presented and justified. The first structure consists of an anisotropic elastic thin plate with two surface bonded anisotropic piezoelectric patches and the second one is an anisotropic elastic sandwich thin plate with an inserted anisotropic piezoelectric patch. The two unknowns of the corresponding asymptotic models, the mechanical displacements of the structures and the electric potentials of the patches, are partially decoupled. The former are the solution of modified Kirchhoff-Love plate models, while the latter can be derived as explicit functions of the mechanical displacements. Moreover, different formulas for the electric potential arise as a consequence of diverse electric boundary conditions. We report numerical simulations with these asymptotic models.     

Nonlinear thickness-shear vibration of an infinite piezoelectric plate with flexoelectricity based on the method of multiple scales

This paper presents a nonlinear thickness-shear vibration model for onedimensional infinite piezoelectric plate with flexoelectricity and geometric nonlinearity. The constitutive equations with flexoelectricity and governing equations are derived from the Gibbs energy density function and variational principle. The displacement adopted here is assumed to be antisymmetric through the thickness due to the thickness-shear vibration mode. Only the shear strain gradient through the thickness is considered in the present model. With geometric nonlinearity, the governing equations are converted into differential equations as the function of time by the Galerkin method. The method of multiple scales is employed to obtain the solution to the nonlinear governing equation with first order approximation. Numerical results show that the nonlinear thickness-shear vibration of piezoelectric plate is size dependent, and the flexoelectric effect has significant influence on the nonlinear thickness-shear vibration frequencies of micro-size thin plates. The geometric nonlinearity also affects the thickness-shear vibration frequencies greatly. The results show that flexoelectricity and geometric nonlinearity cannot be ignored in design of accurate high-frequency piezoelectric devices.     

Static analysis of simply supported functionally graded and layered magneto-electro-elastic plates

In this article, static analysis of functionally graded, anisotropic and linear magneto-electro-elastic plates have been carried out by semi-analytical finite element method. A series solution is assumed in the plane of the plate and finite element procedure is adopted across the thickness of the plate such a way that the three-dimensional character of the solution is preserved. The finite element model is derived based on constitutive equation of piezomagnetic material accounting for coupling between elasticity, electric and magnetic effect. The present finite element is modeled with displacement components, electric potential and magnetic potential as nodal degree of freedom. The other fields are calculated by post-computation through constitutive equation. The functionally graded material is assumed to be exponential in the thickness direction. The numerical results obtained by the present model are in good agreement with available functionally graded three-dimensional exact benchmark solutions given by Pan and Han [Pan, E., Han, F., in press. Green’s function for transversely isotropic piezoelectric functionally graded multilayered half spaces. Int. J. Solids Struct.]. Numerical study includes the influence of the different exponential factor, magneto-electro-elastic properties and effect of mechanical and electric type of loading on induced magneto-electro-elastic fields. In addition further study has been carried out on non-homogeneous transversely isotropic FGM magneto-electro-elastic plate available in the literature [Chen, W.Q., Lee, K.Y., Ding, H.J., 2005. On free vibration of non-homogeneous transversely isotropic magneto-electro-elastic plates].     

Identification of electromechanical properties of piezoelectric structures through evolutionary optimisation techniques

In this paper a non-destructive method to predict the whole three-dimensional set of electromechanical properties of active plate structures is presented. Since the elastic properties of the patches, along with their piezoelectric properties, have significant effect on the dynamic response of the global structure, the inverse problem of the identification of those properties is stated as a constrained minimisation problem of an error function expressing the difference between the measured eigenfrequencies and the corresponding numerical values. Thus, the adopted strategy relies on the dynamic response of the structure in terms of undamped natural frequencies and makes use of a global optimisation technique. To this purpose, a 3D finite element model is used to model the piezoelectric sensors, while an improved genetic algorithm is used as the optimisation tool in order to perform the solution search. The results are demonstrated through a simulated test case, that shows the accuracy of the method.     

逆压电效应对双稳态压电俘能器的性能影响研究

为了研究逆压电效应对压电俘能效果的具体影响,本文首先分析了双稳态压电俘能器的分布参数型能量表达式,然后应用广义Hamilton变分原理推导了该俘能系统的动力学方程,最后采用谐波平衡法获得了动力响应解析解。通过对比不同激励频率下的数值仿真结果,讨论了逆压电效应对俘能系统动力响应的影响规律。结果表明,逆压电效应在不同工况下对俘能效果的影响并非单纯起抑制作用,在一定激励强度的高频激励下,逆压电效应对俘能效果的影响起增强作用;弱强度激励下的俘能效果则全程受到抑制作用。     

支架振动的主动控制研究

利用压电材料的机电耦合特性，采用数值分析和实验相结合的方法研究了压电材料对支架的振动控制。利用Ｈａｍｉｌｔｏｎ原理，采用速度反馈，并考虑压电材料的机电耦合效应推导了振动主动控制有限元方程，分析了不同约束，不同压电片布置情况下支架的振动控制，实现了压电片的优化布置，同时用实验验证了数值分析的正确性。     

压电薄板屈曲有限元分析及DKQ单元

在机电耦合本构方程基础上,利用Hamilton原理推导了压电薄板屈曲分析的有限元特征方程和机电耦合的内力计算公式,在有限元实现中选择了基于Kirchhoff薄板假定的四边形薄板单元（DKQ单元）,并给出该单元的几何刚度阵及其数值积分方法。在大型通用有限元分析和优化设计软件系统JIFEX中实现了该方法。给出的数值验证了DKQ单元在屈曲分析和压电薄板静力分析中具有较高精度和收敛性,通过机械荷载和电荷载联合作用下的临界荷载计算,表明压电耦合效应能够影响结构的稳定性,可以通过改变外加电压对结构稳定性进行控制。     

压电功能梯度板自由振动的三维解

基于三维弹性理论和压电理论，导出了有限长矩形压电功率梯度板的动力学方程及相应的边界条件，并用幂级数展开法进行了求解，得到了压电功能梯度板自由振动的三维精确解公式，求解了自由振动的固有频率，并分析了压电系数的梯度变化对不同电学边界条件下压电板的自由振动频率的影响，结果可用于校核不同的近似理论及理解压电结构的动态行为。