This paper deals with the analysis of active constrained layer damping (ACLD) of smart skew laminated composite plates. The constraining layer of the ACLD treatment is composed of the vertically/obliquely reinforced 1–3 piezoelectric composites (PZCs). A finite element model has been developed for accomplishing the task of the active constrained layer damping of skew laminated symmetric and antisymmetric cross-ply and antisymmetric angle-ply composite plates integrated with the patches of such ACLD treatment. Both in-plane and out-of-plane actuations by the constraining layer of the ACLD treatment have been utilized for deriving the finite element model. The analysis revealed that the vertical actuation dominates over the in-plane actuation. Particular emphasis has been placed on investigating the performance of the patches when the orientation angle of the piezoelectric fibers of the constraining layer is varied in the two mutually orthogonal vertical planes. Also, the effects of varying the skew angle of the substrate laminated composite plates and different boundary conditions on the performance of the patches have been studied. The analysis reveals that the vertically and the obliquely reinforced 1–3 PZC materials should be used for achieving the best control authority of ACLD treatment, as the boundary conditions of the smart skew laminated composite plates are simply supported and clamped-clamped, respectively.
This paper deals with the investigation of the performance of the skew or the rectangular patches of the active constrained layer damping (ACLD) treatment for active damping of geometrically nonlinear vibrations of skew doubly curved laminated composite shells. Developing a three-dimensional nonlinear electro-mechanical finite element model, the performance of the patches is examined for different configurations of their placements on the top surface of the skew substrate shells. The investigation reveals that the patches of the ACLD treatment significantly improves the active damping characteristics of the skew doubly curved laminated composite shells over the passive damping for suppressing their geometrically nonlinear vibrations. It is suggested that even though the substrate shells are skew, a rectangular patch of the ACLD treatment located at the centre of the top surface of the substrate shells should be used for achieving optimum damping of geometrically nonlinear vibrations of skew doubly curved laminated composite shells irrespective of the skew angles and boundary conditions. The effects of variations of the piezoelectric fiber orientation angle in the constraining layer of the ACLD patches and the skew angle of the substrate shells on the control authority of the ACLD patches have been extensively investigated.
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