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Nonlinear vibrations of FGM rectangular plates in thermal environments

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Geometrically nonlinear vibrations of FGM rectangular plates in thermal environments are investigated via multi-modal energy approach. Both nonlinear first-order shear deformation theory and von Karman theory are used to model simply supported FGM plates with movable edges. Using Lagrange equations of motion, the energy functional is reduced to a system of infinite nonlinear ordinary differential equations with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities. A pseudo-arclength continuation and collocation scheme is used and it is revealed that, in order to obtain the accurate natural frequency in thermal environments, an analysis based on the full nonlinear model is unavoidable since the plate loses its original flat configuration due to thermal loads. The effect of temperature variations as well as volume fraction exponent is discussed and it is illustrated that thermally deformed FGM plates have stronger hardening behaviour; on the other hand, the effect of volume fraction exponent is not significant, but modal interactions may rise in thermally deformed FGM plates that could not be seen in their undeformed isotropic counterparts. Moreover, a bifurcation analysis is carried out using Gear’s backward differentiation formula (BDF); bifurcation diagrams of Poincaré maps and maximum Lyapunov exponents are obtained in order to detect and classify bifurcations and complex nonlinear dynamics.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave, Tehran, 15914, Iran

    F. Alijani & F. Bakhtiari-Nejad

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, H3A 2K6, Canada

    M. Amabili

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Alijani, F., Bakhtiari-Nejad, F. & Amabili, M. Nonlinear vibrations of FGM rectangular plates in thermal environments. Nonlinear Dyn 66, 251–270 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-011-0049-8

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