Gaussian thermal shock-induced thermoelastic wave propagation in an FG multilayer hybrid nanocomposite cylinder reinforced by GPLs and CNTs

Abstract

In this paper, a new modified micromechanical model is proposed to obtain the mechanical and thermal properties of a reinforced functionally graded (FG) multilayer hybrid nanocomposite cylinder for thermoelastic wave propagation analysis with energy dissipation using Green–Naghdi theory. The FG multilayer hybrid nanocomposite cylinder is assumed to be under Gaussian thermal shock loading and also it is reinforced by graphene platelets (GPLs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The cylinder is assumed to be made of multi-layers (sub-cylinders), and each layer is reinforced by a uniform distribution of GPLs and CNTs. A modified micromechanical model is proposed to calculate the thermo-mechanical properties with nonlinear grading patterns of the GPLs and CNTs along the radial direction of the cylinder. The nonlinear grading patterns of the GPLs and CNTs distributions along the radial direction of the whole cylinder can be created using a suitable arrangement of the layers (sub-cylinders). An effective meshless collocation method based on the generalized finite difference (GFD) method and the Newmark method are employed to solve the coupled governing equations of the GN-based coupled thermoelasticity analysis. The effects of the key parameters such as the weight fraction of the GPLs and CNTs and volume fraction index on the thermoelastic wave propagations and dynamic behaviors of the field variables are studied in detail. Also, the effects of the reinforcement by GPLs and/or CNTs in a hybrid nanocomposite on the transient behaviors of cylinder in both temperature and displacement fields are compared. The accuracy and stability of the presented meshless method and also the proposed new modified micromechanical model is verified by the published reference data.