Transient instability analysis of viscoelastic sandwich CNTs-reinforced microplates exposed to 2D magnetic field and hygrothermal conditions

Abstract

Transient size-dependent mechanical and thermal buckling analyses of sandwich microplates with viscoelastic core and single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-reinforced face sheets are introduced in this paper. The CNTs are uniformly distributed or functionally graded (FG) through the thickness of the face layers. The viscoelastic sandwich microplate is resting on three-parameter viscoelastic foundations that modeled according to the viscoelastic Kelvin-Voigt model with a shear layer. Effects of a 2D magnetic field as well as hygrothermal conditions on the present analyses are studied. The modified couple stress model containing one material length scale parameter is employed to capture the small scale effect. A body force (Lorentz force) is deduced from Maxwell’s magnetic equations, that is applied to each particle of the structure. The higher-order shear deformation plate theory with four unknowns is utilized to describe the displacement field. The stability equations are obtained using the principle of virtual displacement. By applying Navier method, the stability equations are solved to obtain the mechanical and thermal buckling of viscoelastic sandwich microplates. Various numerical examples are presented including the effects of the length scale parameter, moisture concentration, magnetic field parameter and other parameters on the buckling of the viscoelastic FGCNTs-reinforced sandwich microplates.