Journal
COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages 35-50Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.05.050
Keywords
Neutral surface; Functionally graded piezoelectric materials; Two-variable sinusoidal shear deformation plate theory; Electric potential; Pasternak elastic foundation
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The concept of neutral surface for a Functionally Graded Piezoelectric (FGP) plate is developed in this paper. The electro-elastic analysis of a FGP plate resting on Winkler-Pasternak foundation is performed in the theoretical framework provided by a two-variable sinusoidal shear deformation theory, including the aforementioned concept of neutral surface. First, the location of neutral surface is defined with respect to the position of the middle surface and then the governing bending equations are derived using the principle of virtual work. An analytical method is presented to investigate the variation of the displacement and stress components in terms of the main parameters of the model, which are volume fraction exponent of the constituents, the electric potential and foundation parameters. The numerical results are validated through the comparison with available references. The numerical results prove that the value of transverse bending deflection is greater than the corresponding shear deflection. In addition, it can be observed that the volume fraction exponent has peculiar influence on the distribution of displacements and stresses.
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