TY - JOUR

T1 - Vibration Analysis of Bistable Unsymmetric Laminates with Curvilinear Fiber Paths

AU - Akhil, K. S.

AU - Anilkumar, P. M.

AU - Haldar, A.

AU - Rao, B. N.

N1 - Funding Information: Authors would like to acknowledge Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF), India for the research grant during the course of second author's doctoral research.

PY - 2022/11/19

Y1 - 2022/11/19

N2 - Multistable laminates have been actively studied in recent years due to its potential applications in morphing and energy harvesting devices. Variable stiffness (VS) bistable laminates provide opportunities for further improvements in design space in comparison with constant stiffness bistable laminates. The snap-through process involving shape transition between the stable configurations is highly nonlinear in nature and exhibits rich dynamics. Exploiting the dynamic characteristics during the snap-through transition is of considerable interest in designing the morphing structural components. In this paper, we present a semi-analytical model based on Rayleigh-Ritz approach in conjunction with Hamilton's principle to predict the natural frequencies of bistable VS laminates. The obtained results are compared with the results from the full geometrically nonlinear finite element (FE) model. The proposed FE model is further extended to study the dynamics of VS laminates subjected to external forces with different amplitudes. Subsequently, a parametric study is performed to explore the effect of different curvilinear fiber alignments on natural frequencies, mode shapes, free vibration characteristics and forced vibration characteristics (single-well and cross-well vibrations).

AB - Multistable laminates have been actively studied in recent years due to its potential applications in morphing and energy harvesting devices. Variable stiffness (VS) bistable laminates provide opportunities for further improvements in design space in comparison with constant stiffness bistable laminates. The snap-through process involving shape transition between the stable configurations is highly nonlinear in nature and exhibits rich dynamics. Exploiting the dynamic characteristics during the snap-through transition is of considerable interest in designing the morphing structural components. In this paper, we present a semi-analytical model based on Rayleigh-Ritz approach in conjunction with Hamilton's principle to predict the natural frequencies of bistable VS laminates. The obtained results are compared with the results from the full geometrically nonlinear finite element (FE) model. The proposed FE model is further extended to study the dynamics of VS laminates subjected to external forces with different amplitudes. Subsequently, a parametric study is performed to explore the effect of different curvilinear fiber alignments on natural frequencies, mode shapes, free vibration characteristics and forced vibration characteristics (single-well and cross-well vibrations).

KW - Bistable

KW - composites

KW - dynamics

KW - finite element

KW - snap-through

KW - variable stiffness

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U2 - 10.1142/S021945542350089X

DO - 10.1142/S021945542350089X

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85143745489

VL - 23

JO - International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics

JF - International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics

SN - 0219-4554

IS - 8

M1 - 2350089

ER -