Thermal dynamic buckling of temperature-dependent sandwich nanocomposite quadrilateral microplates using visco-higher order nonlocal strain gradient theory

Abstract

Abstract This research deals with the nonlocal temperature-dependent dynamic buckling analysis of embedded laminated quadrilateral micro plates reinforced by functionally graded carbon nanotubes (FG-CNTs). The material properties of structure are assumed viscoelastic based on Kelvin–Voigt model. The effective material properties of structure are considered based on mixture rule. The elastic medium is simulated by orthotropic visco-Pasternak medium. The motion equations are derived applying Sinusoidal shear deformation theory (SSDT) in which the size effects are considered using higher order nonlocal strain gradient theory. The transformed weighing (TW) and differential quadrature (DQ) method in conjunction with the Bolotin’s method are applied for calculating resonance frequency and dynamic instability region (DIR) of structure. The effects of different parameters such as volume percent of CNTs, distribution type of CNTs, temperature, nonlocal parameter and structural damping on the dynamic instability of visco-system are shown. The results are compared with other published works in the literature. Results indicate that the CNTs have an important role in dynamic stability of structure and FGX distribution type is the better choice.