Effect of carbon nanotube waviness on smart damping of geometrically nonlinear vibrations of fuzzy-fiber reinforced composite plates

Abstract

In this article, we present a finite element model for the three-dimensional analysis of smart constrained layer damping of geometrically nonlinear vibrations of laminated fuzzy-fiber reinforced composite plates. The three-dimensional fractional derivative constitutive relation is implemented for the viscoelastic layer. The constraining layer of the smart constrained layer damping treatment is composed of the vertically/obliquely reinforced 1–3 piezoelectric composites. The von Kármán–type nonlinear strain–displacement relations are used to incorporate the geometric nonlinearity in the model. The main aim of this article is to numerically investigate the effect of carbon nanotube waviness on the nonlinear smart damping. Several thin laminated substrate fuzzy-fiber reinforced composite plates with straight carbon nanotubes and wavy carbon nanotubes with different waviness in different planes are considered with various boundary conditions and stacking sequences to numerically compute their effect on smart damping. The performance of the obliquely reinforced 1–3 piezoelectric composites is discussed and the efficacy of the present smart finite element model in terms of active control authority is also presented.