Abstract
In this study, two-dimensional circular thickness effects on time period of skew plate made with nonhomogeneous material properties are computed in variable temperature environment. Clamped , simply supported , and free-edge conditions are the various combinations considered in this work. One-dimensional circular density and two-dimensional parabolic temperature variation on the plate are considered due to the nonhomogeneous nature of the material and variable temperature environment. Rayleigh–Ritz method is used to compute the time period for the first two modes of vibration. A convergence study of frequency modes of skew plate on various edge conditions has also been performed. The present work has been compared with the frequency modes of parallelogram and rectangle plate on various edge conditions. The objective of the study is to present a numerical data of time period as well as to show how one can control the frequencies of plate by taking an appropriate variation in plate parameters.
1. Introduction
A large number of structures/equipments are made up of plates, and this fact has prompted the researchers to do a detailed study of vibrational frequencies of plates. Almost, all structures while working undergo some vibrations. A large vibration is a kind of waste that can reduce the performance of structures/equipments. In order to increase the performance and reliability of structures/equipment, the vibration of the structure needs to be decreased. The various parameters such as variation in shape, size, tapering, nonhomogeneity, and temperature of the plate play a crucial role in minimizing the frequencies. Studies regarding plate’s vibration have been well documented in the literature. In the available literature, for the thickness of the plate, researchers focused on linear, parabolic variation (one dimensional, two dimensional), parabolic variation (one dimensional, two dimensional), and circular (only in one dimensional) variation. To the best of the knowledge of the authors, the effect of two-dimensional circular variation in thickness on time period of frequency modes has not been studied yet. This prompted the authors to carry out the research to study the effect of two-dimensional circular thickness impact on time period of parallelogram plate.
Natural frequency of rectangular plates has been computed in [1] on various combinations of clamped, simply supported, and free-edge condition by applying Galerkin’s averaging technique. The first three modes of frequencies comprise the effect of foundation, density, thickness, and aspect ratio of nonhomogeneous orthotropic rectangle plate which have been computed in [2] using the Chebyshev collocation technique. The semianalytical method has been used in [3] to study the effect of skew angle, aspect ratio, orthotropy, and boundary conditions on the vibration of orthotropic skew plates. Rayleigh–Ritz and kinematic methods have been used in [4] to analyze the effects of material, number of layers, and fiber orientation on frequencies and mode shapes of anisotropic, simply supported plates of square planform. Natural frequencies and mode shapes of sector plate on simply supported edges have been computed in [5] using an analytical solution. Multiple scales method has been applied as in [6] to study the vibration of rectangle plate (cracked, fluid medium), and the effect of crack length, fluid level, fluid density, and immersed depth of the plate have been presented. High accurate solution (using accurate series) for rectangle plate with all possible combinations on edge conditions has been presented in [7]. A detailed comprehensive study of vibration of plates, beams, and shell has been studied in [8] using Rayleigh–Ritz method. Natural vibration of nonhomogeneous rectangle plate has been studied in [9] using Rayleigh–Ritz method with boundary characteristic orthogonal polynomials and presented the effect of various plate parameters on the frequency of the plate. Ritz method has been applied in [10] to investigate vibrational behavior (first three modes) of nonhomogeneous, nonuniform circular plates on clamped, simply supported, and free edges and presented the various plate parameters impact on frequencies. Effect of circular variation in density on time period of parallelogram plate having two-dimensional thickness and temperature on and edge condition has been computed in [11] using Rayleigh–Ritz method, where and stand for clamped and simply supported edge conditions, respectively. Modeling on time period of vibrational frequencies of nonuniform skew plate made up of nonhomogeneous material has been presented in [12] using Rayleigh–Ritz method, and effect of various plate parameters on time period has been computed. Rayleigh–Ritz method has been implemented in [13] to study the frequency behavior of skew plate with variable thickness on circular variation in Poisson’s ratio and linear variation in temperature. Vibration response of generally curved shell structures to different stacking sequences, material typologies, and boundary conditions has been analysed in [14] by using differential quadrature method. Generalized layer-wise (LW) along with generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method has been used in [15] to analyze anisotropic double curved shells with an arbitrary shape.
In this current study, the authors focused to show the impact of two-dimensional circular thickness on the time period of nonhomogeneous parallelogram plate on various boundary conditions under variable temperature field. The authors also computed one-dimensional circular density and two-dimensional parabolic thickness impact on time period. All the numerical data are presented in the form of tables. In order to authenticate the findings and to present the objectives, a comparative analysis of frequency modes of parallelogram and rectangle plate with the available published results is also presented in tabular form.
2. Analysis
A skew (parallelogram) plate made with nonhomogeneous material property with variable thickness having skew angle , length , breadth , density , and Poisson’s ratio is considered referred to skew coordinates (refer Figure 1).
The equation for kinetic energy and strain energy for natural transverse vibration of the nonuniform parallelogram is given by the expression as [16]where is the flexural rigidity. Here, , , and are Poisson’s ratio, Young’s modulus, and deflection function, respectively.
Rayleigh–Ritz method requires that maximum strain energy must be equal to maximum kinetic energy; that is,
On substituting (1) and (2) in (3), we get
The thickness of the skew plate is assumed to be circular in both dimensions (refer Figure 2), and density is assumed to be circular in one dimension aswhere and are the thickness and density of the plate, respectively, at the origin. Also, and are taper parameters and nonhomogeneity parameters, respectively.
Two-dimensional steady-state temperature variations on the plate are considered to be parabolic and expressed aswhere and denote the temperature excess above the reference temperature on the plate at any point and the origin, respectively. The temperature dependence modulus of elasticity for engineering structures is given bywhere is the Young’s modulus at mentioned temperature (i.e., ), and is the slope of variation.
Substituting (6) in (7), we get the following expression:where is called temperature gradient.
Using (5) and (8), (4) becomeswhere
The two-term deflection function that satisfies all the edge conditions can be taken aswhich is the product of two functions. Here, the first function represents the boundary conditions depending on the value of and , which can take different values depending upon the support edge condition. Values are assigned for free edge, simply supported, and clamped edge, respectively. The second function represents the number of modes of frequencies, and represents arbitrary constants.
In order to minimize the function given in (9), we require the following condition:
After simplifying (12), we get a homogeneous system of equations in whose nonzero solution gives the equation of frequency aswhere and are the square matrix of order , and .
The following expression is used for calculating the time period:where is a frequency obtained from (13).
3. Numerical Results and Discussion
Time period of parallelogram plate on , , , , , and edge conditions (refer Figure 3) is computed and shown the effect of various plate parameters (especially two-dimensional circular thickness impact) on the behavior of time period of frequency modes with the help of tables. The value of aspect ratio , skew angle and Poisson’s ratio is taken throughout the calculation.
Table 1 summarizes the time period of frequency modes of parallelogram plate on , , , , , and edge conditions corresponding to tapering parameters for a fixed value of thermal gradient and nonhomogeneity . From Table 1, the following conclusions can be made:(i)Time period decreases for both the increasing value of tapering parameters on each edge condition.(ii)The rate of decrement in time period in case of tapering is more in comparison to the rate of decrement in time period in case of tapering on all edge conditions.(iii)The time period is higher on edge condition and lower on edge condition. But the rate of decrement in time period is less in edge condition and higher on edge condition.(iv)The order of increase in time period for different edge conditions is , corresponding to tapering parameters .
Table 2 represents the time period of frequency modes of parallelogram plate on , , , , , , and edge conditions corresponding to thermal gradient for a fixed value of nonhomogeneity and variable values of tapering parameters from 0.0 to 1.0. From Table 2, the following facts can be interpreted:(i)Increase in the thermal gradient results in an increase in the time period but the increasing value of both tapering parameters results in the decrease in time period , on all edge conditions.(ii)The rate of increment in time period in case of thermal gradient is less than that in case of tapering parameters , , on all edge conditions.(iii)Here, also the time period is higher on edge condition and lower on edge condition as shown in Table 1. But the rate of increment in time period is less on edge condition and higher on edge condition.(iv)The time period for different edge conditions corresponding to thermal gradient is in the following ascending order: .
The time period of frequency modes of parallelogram plate on , , , , , , and edge conditions corresponding to nonhomogeneity for a fixed value of thermal gradient and variable values of tapering parameters from 0.0 to 1.0 is summarized in Table 3. From Table 3, it can be concluded that(i)Time period decreases with increasing value of nonhomogeneity as well as for the increasing value of both tapering parameters , for each edge conditions.(ii)The rate of decrement in time period in case of both the tapering parameters , is higher when compared with a rate of decrement in time period for nonhomogeneity , on all edge conditions.(iii)Here, also the time period is higher on edge condition and lower on edge condition as shown in Tables 1 and 2. But the rate of decrement in time period is lower on edge condition and higher on edge condition. The time period for different edge conditions increases in the following sequence: , corresponding to nonhomogeneity .
4. Convergence of Results
This section reports convergence study done on frequency modes of parallelogram plate on , , , , , , and edge condition, for the plate parameters in rage specified, that is, and . The results are presented in tabular form (refer Table 4). From Table 4, we can see that the frequency modes of parallelogram plate converge up to five decimal places in the fifth approximation.
The convergence of frequency modes of parallelogram plate on and edge conditions is presented in Table 5. Table 5 also concludes that the frequency modes of parallelogram plate converge upto five decimal places in the fifth approximation.
5. Results Comparison
In order to validate the findings of the present study as well as to present the objective of the study, a comparison of frequency modes obtained in the present study was done with the following:(i)Frequency modes of parallelogram plate obtained in [11] on and edge condition corresponding to tapering parameters and aspect ratio (ii)Frequency modes of rectangle plate obtained in [17, 18] on , and edge condition corresponding to tapering parameters and on , , , and edge conditions corresponding to a thermal gradient
The results are reported in tabular form (refer Tables 6 and 7 for parallelogram plate and refer Tables 8 and 9 for rectangle plate). For comparison of frequency modes of rectangle plate and obtained in [17, 18], the authors exclude the nonhomogeneity in the present study as it was not considered in [17, 18].
Table 6 presents the comparison of frequency modes of the present study (parallelogram plate) and the frequency obtained in [11] on and edge conditions corresponding to tapering parameters , for a fixed value of thermal gradient and nonhomogeneity , skew angle , and aspect ratio . Table 6 clearly shows that the frequency obtained in the present study (parallelogram plate) is less when compared with the frequency modes obtained in [11] with the increasing value of tapering parameters on both and edge conditions.
A comparison of frequency modes of the present study (parallelogram plate) and the frequency modes obtained in [11] is presented in Table 7 on and edge conditions corresponding to aspect ratio and tapering parameters for a fixed value of thermal gradient and nonhomogeneity and skew angle . Here also, the frequency modes obtained in the present study (parallelogram plate) are less when compared with the frequency modes obtained in [11] with the increasing value of aspect ratio and tapering parameters on both and edge conditions.
Table 8 shows the comparison of frequency modes of rectangle plate (by taking skew angle in the present study) and obtained in [17] on , and edge conditions corresponding to tapering parameters for a fixed value of and aspect ratio . Table 8 enlightens the fact that frequency modes of rectangle plate are very less in comparison to the frequency modes obtained in [17] on all the above edge conditions with the increasing value of tapering parameters .
A comparison of frequency modes of rectangle plate (by taking skew angle in the present study) and obtained in [18] on , , , and edge conditions corresponding to thermal gradient for fixed value tapering parameters and aspect ratio is shown in Table 9. Here also, one can easily see that the frequency modes of the rectangle plate are very less in comparison to the frequency modes obtained in [18] on all the above edge conditions with the increasing value of thermal gradient .
6. Conclusion
The effect of various plate parameters (especially the effect of two-dimensional tapering parameters ) on time period of the first two modes of frequency of parallelogram plate on various boundary conditions is computed. Based on the results obtained from numerical simulation and comparison done, the authors would like to conclude the following facts:(a)Frequency modes of parallelogram plate in case of two-dimensional circular thickness in this study are less when compared with the frequency modes obtained in [11] in case of two-dimensional linear thickness on both and edge conditions. The frequency modes of the present study and obtained in [11] match at on both and edge conditions (refer Table 6).(b)Frequency modes of parallelogram plate in case of aspect ratio’s impact on two-dimensional circular thickness in the current study provide less frequency when compared with frequency modes obtained in [11], in case of aspect ratio’s impact on the two-dimensional linear thickness on and edge conditions. The frequency modes of the present study obtained in [11] coincide at on and edge conditions (refer Table 7).(c)Frequency modes of rectangle plate in case of two-dimensional circular thickness (present study) are very less in comparison to frequency modes obtained in [17] in case of two-dimensional linear thickness on , , and edge conditions (refer Table 8).(d)In the current study, frequency modes of rectangle plate in case of two-dimensional parabolic temperature are very less as compared to frequency modes obtained in [18] in case of two-dimensional linear temperature on , , , , and edge conditions (refer Table 9).(e)Tapering parameter dominates the time period (rate of decrement) more than the tapering parameter (refer Table 1).(f)Increase in both the tapering and nonhomogneity on the plate results in the decrease in time period (refer Tables 1 and 3) while an increase in thermal gradient on plate results in an increase in the time period (refer Table 2).(g)We can minimize the vibrational frequencies of the plate by choosing appropriate variation in plate parameters (refer points a to d). We can also control the variation (rate of increment/decrement) in time period of frequency modes by choosing appropriate variation in plate parameters (refer points e and f).(h)A numerical data in the form of time period is calculated which shows the impact of various plate parameters.
Data Availability
The research data used to support the findings of this study are currently under embargo, while the research findings are commercialized. Requests for data, 6 months after the publication of this article, will be considered by the corresponding authors.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.