Bending Analysis of Piezolaminated Rectangular Plates under Electromechanical Loadings Using Multi-Term Extended Kantorovich Method

Abstract

Flexural behavior of piezolaminated rectangular plates with arbitrary lamination and boundary conditions are analyzed analytically based on the multi-term extended Kantorovich method. Two systems of coupled ordinary differential equations are obtained by using the principle of minimum total potential energy and solved in an iterative procedure. For the assessment of the present theory, the present results are compared with those of other investigators and also with those obtained by the Navier and Levy methods for plates with admissible lay-ups and boundary conditions. It is found that the present results have excellent agreements with those obtained by other methods.