Dynamic instability analysis of FG-CNTRC laminated conical shells surrounded by elastic foundations within FSDT

Abstract

A comprehensive understanding of the dynamic instability of shell structure is critical to avoid resonance damage. On the basis of that, an accurate and analytical method for investigation the dynamic instability of laminated functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) conical shell surrounded by the elastic foundations is presented in this work based on the first-order shear deformation theory. In the analysis, uniform or functionally graded distributions of reinforcements across the shell thickness are considered and the extended Voigt model is employed to estimate the CNTRC material properties. The governing equations of conical shell subjected to parametric excitation are established by the Hamilton's principle considering first order shear deformation shell theory. Then the Mathieu-Hill equations describing the parametric stability of conical shell are obtained by generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method, and the Bolotin's method is utilized to obtain the first-order approximations of principal instability regions of shell structure. By comparing the numerical results with the existing solutions in open literature, the validity of the proposed theoretical model is verified. Finally, the influences of volume fractions and types of CNTs, lamination angle, elastic foundations stiffness and lamination angle on the dynamic stability of laminated FG-CNTRC conical shell have been investigated.