Tunable Bending and Buckling Behaviors of Circular Plates Made of FG Graphene Origami-Enabled Auxetic Metamaterials

Abstract

Based on the variational differential quadrature (VDQ) method, the bending and buckling characteristics of circular plates made of functionally graded graphene origami-enabled auxetic metamaterials (FG-GOEAMs) are numerically studied in this paper. It is considered that the plate is composed of multiple GOEAM layers with graphene origami (GOri) content that changes in layer-wise patterns. The results from genetic programming-assisted micromechanical models are also employed in order to estimate the material properties. The plate is modeled according to the first-order shear deformation plate theory whose governing equations are obtained using an energy approach in the context of VDQ technique. The governing equations are given in a new vector-matrix form which can be easily utilized in coding process of numerical methods. By means of VDQ matrix differential and integral operators, the governing equations are discretized and solved to calculate the lateral deflection and critical buckling load of plates under various boundary conditions. Selected numerical results are presented to investigate the influences of boundary conditions, GOri content, folding degree and distribution pattern on the buckling and bending behaviors of FG-GOEAM plates.