Nonlinear Forced Vibration of Thermally Postbuckled Double-Layered Triangular Graphene Sheet with Clamped Boundary Conditions

Abstract

In the present research, vibration behavior is presented for a thermally postbuckled double-layered triangular graphene sheet (DLTGS). The DLTGS is modeled as a nonlocal orthotropic plate and contains small-scale effects. The formulations are based on the Kirchhoff’s plate theory, and a nonlinearity of von Karman-type is considered in strain–displacement relations. The thermal effects and van der Waals forces between layers are also included and some of the material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent. A semi-analytical solution is obtained using the multiple time scales method. The effects of variation of small-scale parameter to the natural frequencies, deflections and response curve of DLTGS are analyzed, and the numerical results are obtained from the nonlocal plate model. Numerical results are compared with those of similar researches. Effects of various parameters on the postbuckled vibration of DLTGS in thermal environments such as scale parameter and thermal load are presented. The stability and occurrence of the internal resonance between vibration modes around a stable buckled configuration is investigated.