The assessment of electric voltage influence on vibrational behavior of intelligent sandwich plates with GO-reinforced metal foam core and piezoelectric actuator face sheets

Abstract

In this research, it is tried to study the effect of the external electric voltage on the vibrational behavior of a smart sandwich plate made of graphene oxide-strengthened metal foam nanocomposite core and two piezoelectric face sheets for the first time. The sandwich plate is modeled utilizing first-order shear deformation theory. The effective material properties of the core layer are estimated with the aim of the blend of Halpin-Tsai micromechanical model and rule of the mixture while considering different graded graphene oxide distribution patterns. Additionally, various porosity distributions are regarded in the metal matrix of the core layer. The partial differential equations of motion are derived using Hamilton’s principle and the derived governing equations are solved through Navier’s solution. To perform an accurate verification, the obtained results are compared with different literature investigations. Afterward, the influence of various important variants including external electric voltage, aspect ratio of plate, core to face sheet thickness ratio, different porosity distribution patterns, porosity coefficient, nanofillers weight fraction, and various distribution patterns of graphene oxides on the dimensionless frequency of smart sandwich plate in the framework of a group of tables and figures.