Abstract
Sandwich composite materials with elastomeric cores and high-strength face layers have widespread applications in various engineering sectors as passive damping structural materials. This study examines the dynamic properties of sandwich plate with laminated composite face layers and smart magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) core under the action of the aerodynamic and hygrothermal loads. The dynamic model based on Kirchhoff’s plate theory is employed and the equations of motion are derived using Hamilton’s principle. The flow conditions are assumed supersonic and modeled by the first-order piston theory. The natural frequencies and aerodynamic pressure distributions are obtained from finite element model. Upon validating the model, the effects of various factors such as moisture, temperature and plate geometry on the critical aerodynamic pressure for different boundary conditions and magnetic fields are studied. Using these parametric data, a regression model is developed using Back-Propagation Neural Network to predict the critical aerodynamic pressure as a function of effective geometrical parameters. In order to enhance the aerodynamic stability, the critical aerodynamic pressure is maximized by the optimal selection of plate aspect ratio, face layer ply orientation sequence and core layer thickness ratio via the modified teaching–learning-based optimization (MTLBO) technique employing the trained neural network-based surrogate model. The approach is very convenient and it has been found that nondimensional aerodynamic pressure along with loss factor has improved almost twice. In the sensitivity analysis study, it is noticed that changes in aspect ratio around the optimal point have a relatively drastic effect on the critical aerodynamic pressure at all the face layer ply configurations.
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