Vibration analysis of a sandwich Timoshenko beam reinforced by GOAM/CNT with various boundary conditions using VIM

Abstract

In the present study, a sandwich beam reinforced by carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/graphene origami auxetic metamaterials (GOAM) and porous cores is studied. Various distributions of CNTs in facesheets and porosity in the core are stated in terms of thickness. The equations of motion for a sandwich beam are derived and solved under various boundary conditions using variational iteration method (VIM), in which, it is a powerful technique with higher convergence with the computational method that gives analytical response to a linear problem. The effect of the types of CNT distributions, porosity coefficient, types of porous cores, porosity parameter, weight fraction and folding degree of GOAM, different geometric dimensions and different B.C.’s on the natural frequency is investigated. The obtained results are compared with the other literature, that there is a good agreement between them. On the other hands, the maximum error percentage of the present work (VIM) with Civalek and Kiracioglu [66] (Discrete singular convolution method) for the first five frequencies is equal to 0.3% according to Table 2, while in Table 3, the maximum error percentage of the present work (VIM) with Yas and Samadi [67] (differential quadrature method) for the first frequency with various boundary conditions and nanocomposite material is equal to 0.22%. In this regard, the present study can be a suitable platform to find the natural frequency and prevent the phenomenon of resonance and increase the life of the structure. Moreover, it is seen that with enhancing of weight fraction of GOAM, frequency increases because increasing the stiffness of structures. The importance of this research is to extract the formulation of sandwich beam structure for GOAM under different boundary conditions and compare the results between them by repeating the changes.