Analysis of forced and free vibrations of composite porous core sandwich cylindrical shells and FG-CNTs reinforced face sheets resting on visco-Pasternak foundation under uniform thermal field

Abstract

The radial basis function and Newmark-beta methods were used to investigate the vibrational behavior of composite sandwich cylindrical shells with porous core and functionally graded carbon nanotube. The porous core material is a kind of open-cell metal foam, whose, depending on the porosity coefficient and the core thickness, mechanical properties vary. The Hamilton principle was used to extract its motion equations. In this cylindrical sandwich shell, temperature variations are uniformly distributed and resting on the visco-Pasternak foundation with different boundary conditions. Parametric studies were presented to investigate the influence of FG porosity, temperature change, visco-Pasternak foundation, volume fraction, geometrical properties, and distribution of carbon nanotubes on natural frequencies and response dynamics of the sandwich composite cylindrical shell. The numerical outcomes express the distribution of CNTs and volume fraction play a pivotal role in the natural rates and dynamic response of the cylindrical sandwich shell. It is also perceived that there is an increase in the cylindrical shell deformation amplitude with an increase in temperature, damping, and core porosity.