Biaxial buckling analysis of an innovative active sandwich plate

• Autores: Rasool Moradi Dastjerdi, Kamran Behdinan
• Localización: Mechanics based design of structures and machines, ISSN 1539-7734, Vol. 52, Nº. 1, 2024, págs. 275-288
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fragility and the presence of a poisonous substance (lead) are the two major issues with traditional piezoceramics and structures that include them. This work suggests an active structure that is lightweight, flexible, and eco-friendly such that a polymeric foam plate is sandwiched between two piezoelectrically activated nanocomposite layers. A combination of a polymer and piezoelectric nanowires (NWs) of zinc oxide (ZnO) is used in the nanocomposite layers. For the proposed active structure, two types of void distributions and functionally graded (FG) distributions of the NWs have been assumed in each corresponding layer. The buckling characterization of the proposed eco-friendly active sandwich plate (EFASP) under biaxial mechanical loads has been conducted using an extended meshless solution based on a third-order theory. An in-depth parametric study on the EFASPs’ biaxial buckling resistance revealed that increasing NW content considerably enhances buckling resistance, with this enhancement strongly reliant on the distribution profile of the NWs. Moreover, it was observed that embedding voids in the substrate layer can lead to a large structural weight reduction while only marginally lowering the buckling performance of suggested EFASPs.