materials, the active constrained layer damping of laminated thincomposite shells was investigated by Ray and Reddy[9]. Oh andLee[10]investigated the nonlinear deformation and its attendantvibration characteristics of un-symmetrically deposited clamped–clamped micro-beams under piezoelectric and thermal actua-tions, in which the multi-layered micro-resonators with initialimperfections were modeled by using refined layerwise theory.Utilizing the Hamilton’s principle and finite element methods,the linear response of piezothermoelastic plate is obtained inRef.[11].Due to the advantages of being able to withstand severe high-temperature gradient while maintaining structural integrity, func-tionally graded material (FGM) has been receiving much moreattention in engineering communities, especially in applicationsfor high-temperature environment such as nuclear reactors, spaceplanes and chemical plants[12–18]. Therefore, to investigate ac-tivevibrationcontrolofFGMcylindricalshellswiththinpiezoelec-tric layers is very significant.In the present work, FG laminated cylindrical shells are con-sidered as simply supported and temperature distribution acrossthe shell thickness is considered as nonlinear. The dynamic char-acteristics of FG laminated cylindrical shells with thin piezoelec-tric layers embedded on inner and outer surfaces to act asdistributed sensor and actuator (smart FG laminated cylindricalshells) are investigated under thermal and mechanical loads.Based on the first-order shear deformation theory and the Hamil-ton’s principle, the coupling equations to govern the electric po-tential and the flexural deflection of the smart FG laminatedcylindrical shell in thermal environments are derived, in whichthe stiffness and inertial contribution of the piezoelectric layersare considered. The modal analysis technique and Newmark’s di-rect time integration method are used to obtain the response his-tory of the smart FG laminated cylindrical shell, based on anexpansion of the loads, displacements in the double Fourier seriesthat satisfy the boundary conditions. A constant-gain negativevelocity feedback approach is utilized to control vibrational char-acteristics of FGM structures subjected to impact, step and har-monic excitations. The results obtained show that the activecontrol from piezoelectric layers can significantly improves thedamping effect of FGM cylindrical shells; The influence of activecontrol to the dynamic responses of smart FG laminated cylindri-cal shells is dependent on the material property of piezoelectriclayer; the active control to the response amplitudes of smart FGlaminated cylindrical shells greatly depends on the compositionof the metal–ceramic constituents of FGM layer. Finally, the pres-ent approach is validated by comparing the natural frequencies of a simple supported piezoelectric cylindrical shell with the resultsfrom other researchers.
2. Theoretical formulations
Fig. 1shows smart FG laminated cylindrical shells, where(
x
,
h
,
z
) denote the orthogonal curvilinear coordinates such that
x
and
h
curves are the lines of curvature on the middle surface(
z
=0) of FGM layer. The smart FG laminated cylindrical shell ismade of a FGM layer and two thin piezoelectric layers embeddedon inner and outer surfaces to act as distributed sensor andactuator.Form the first-order shear deformation theory, the displace-ments (
u
1
,
v
1
,
w
1
) of a point (
x
,
h
,
z
) in the smart FGlaminatedcylin-drical shell are expressed as sumof the mid-surfacedisplacements(
u
,
v
,
w
) along the
x
,
h
and
z
direction, and rotations (
/
1
,
/
2
) of thenormals to the mid-surface along
x
and
h
axes, as follows
u
1
ð
x
;
h
;
z
;
t
Þ ¼
u
ð
x
;
h
;
t
Þ þ
z
/
1
ð
x
;
h
;
t
Þ
;
v
1
ð
x
;
h
;
z
;
t
Þ ¼
v
ð
x
;
h
;
t
Þ þ
z
/
2
ð
x
;
h
;
t
Þ
;
w
1
ð
x
;
h
;
z
;
t
Þ ¼
w
ð
x
;
h
;
t
Þ
:
ð
1
Þ
Here, thematerial propertiesof FGMlayer are consideredas gradeddistribution along the thickness direction according to a power lawin terms of the volume fractions (power law exponent
U
) of theconstituents[19]. The stress–strain relation including the tempera-ture effects is given by
r
e
¼
C
e
ð
z
Þ½
e
À
a
e
ð
z
Þ
D
T
;
ð
2
Þ
where
D
T
(
x
,
h
,
z
,
t
) is the temperature change referenced to thestress free state
D
T
ð
x
;
h
;
z
;
t
Þ ¼
C
ð
x
;
h
;
t
Þ
T
ð
z
Þð Þ
. The elasticity matrix
C
e
(
z
) and thermal expansion coefficients matrix
a
e
(
z
) of the FGMlayer are given by Kadoli and Ganesan[15].For the actuator and sensor layers, the relations between thefield variables are given by the piezoelectric constitutiveequations:
Nomenclature
L
length of the shell;
R
middle surface radius of the FGM layer
h
s
thickness of the sensor layer
h
thickness of the FGM layer
h
a
thickness of the actuator layer
V
(
x
,
h
,
t
) applied electric potential
Q
iije
plane stress-reduced stiffness of the piezoelectric layers
e
iije
effective piezoelectric constant for plane stress problem
n
iije
effective permittivity constant for plane stress problem
p
i xe
;
p
i
h
e
;
p
i ze
effective pyroelectric constant for plane stress prob-lem
w
s
in-plane electric field induced by the deformation of thesensor layer
w
a
in-plane electric field induced by the deformation of theactuator layer
q
s
mass density of the sensor layer
q
a
mass density of the actuator layer
q
(
z
) mass density of the FGM layer
I
i
(
i
= 1,2,3) mass moments of inertia for the FGM layer
I
ai
ð
i
¼
1
;
2
;
3
Þ
mass moments of inertia for the actuator layer
I
si
ð
i
¼
1
;
2
;
3
Þ
mass moments of inertia for the sensor layer
G
control gain
m
,
n
wave numbers
R
h
a
h
s
FGM LayerActuator Layer
θ
,vz,wx,uLSensor Layerz,w
R
hh
a
h
s
h
Fig. 1.
Coordinate system of a smart FG laminated cylindrical shell.
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