Local and Global Damped Vibrations of Plates with a Viscoelastic Soft Flexible Core: An Improved High-order Approach

An improved high-order theory is presented to investigate the dynamic behavior of thin and thick fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) plates with a soft viscoelastic flexible core. Shear deformation theory is used for the face sheets while three-dimensional elasticity theory is used for the soft core. The analysis permits nonlinear distortions of the cross-sectional plane of the core as well as changes in its height. The analysis determines the damped natural frequencies, loss factors, and local and global mode shapes of plates. Some of the results are hitherto not reported in the literature based on a higher-order plate theory (HSAPT). Transverse shear and rotary inertia effects of face sheets are taken into consideration. For simply supported boundary condition, closed-form solutions are obtained by Navier’s technique. Numerical results are presented and compared with the experimental and theoretical results found in literature.