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Applied Mathematics, 2011, 2, 1-10 doi:10.4236/am.2011.21001 Published Online January 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/am) Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM Study the Effect of Thermal Gradient on Transverse Vibration of Non-Homogeneous Orthotropic Trapezoidal Plate of Parabolically Varying Thickness Arun K. Gupta, Shanu Sharma Department of Mat hematics, M S College, Sahara npur, India E-mail: gupta_arunnitin@yahoo.co.in, shanu.sharma1987@gmail.com Received September 15, 2010; revised October 12, 2010; accepted October 15, 2010 Abstract The present paper deals with the effect of linearly temperature on transverse vibration of non-homogeneous orthotropic trapezoidal plate of parabolically varying thickness. The deflection function is defined by the product of the equations of the prescribed continuous piecewise boundary shape. The non homogeneity of the plate is characterized by taking linear variation of the Young's modulus and parabolically variation of the density of the material. The non homogeneity is assumed to arise due to the variation in the density of the plate material and it is taken as parabolically. Rayleigh Ritz method is used to evaluate the fundamental fre- quencies. The equations of motion, governing the transverse vibrations of orthotropic trapezoidal plates, are derived with boundary condition clamped-simply supported-clamped-simply supported. Frequencies corres- ponding to first two modes of vibration are calculated for the trapezoidal plate for various combinations of the parameters of the non-homogeneity, thermal gradient, taper constant and for different values of the aspect ratios and shown by figures. All The results presented here are entirely new and are not found elsewhere. Comparison can only be made for homogeneous plates, and in that cases the results have been compared with those found in the existing literatures and are in excellent agreement. Keywords: Thermal Gradient, Vibration, Orthotropic Trapezoidal Plate, Parabolically Thickness, Non-Homogeneity 1. Introduction Plate structures are fundamental elements in engineering and are used in a variety of structural applications. Stru- ctures like aircraft wings, satellites, ships, steel bridges, sea platforms, helicopter rotor blades, space craft anten- nae and subsystems of more complex structures can be modeled as orthotropic plate elements. The practical im- portance of plates has made vibration analysis essential for avoiding resonance excited by internal or external forces. Plate structures undergoing transverse deflection can be classified into numerous regimes that describe the nature of their behavior and thus the characteristics of the mathematical problem. Plate theory has been applied to reduce vibration and noise in structures since the end of the 19th century where it began with the work of German physicist Chladni, who discovered various modes of free vibrations experimentally. Since then it has developed into an escalating and expansive field with a wide variety of theoretical and empirical techniques, dealing with increasingly complicated problems. Also in recent years, the development of solid propellant rocket motors, the increased use of soft filaments in aerospace structure, high speed runways, many practical solid structure inte- raction problems such as floor slabs of multistory build- ings or buildings activities in cold regions has intensified the need for solution of various problems of plates and other structure supported on elastic media. In addition, the non-homogeneity of longitudinal to transverse modules of these new materials demands im- provement in the existing analytical tools. As a result, the analysis of plate’s vibrations has attracted many research workers, and has been considerably improved to achieve realistic results. In the design of modern high-speed air- craft and missile structures, swept wing and tail surfaces are extensively employed. The literature on the free vi- brations of plates is vast. A number of researchers have A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 2 worked on free vibration analysis of rectangular, circular, elliptical etc. plates and variable thickness. Little res- earch work has been done on non uniform thickness tra- pezoidal plates as compared to the other plates. Trapezoidal plates are used commonly as structural components in many engineering applications such as ships, aircraft, engineering constructions etc. many res- earcher have investigated the free vibration behavior of trapezoidal plates. Leissa’s monograph [1-3] contains an excellent discussion of the subject of vibrating plates. Chopra and Durvasula [4] solved the problem of vibra- tion of simple-supported trapezoidal plate symmetric trapezoids. Vibration of skew plate was discussed by Nair and Durvasula [5]. Thermal effect on axisymmetric vibration of an orthotropic circular plate of variable thi- ckness was discussed by Tomar and Gupta [6]. Tomar and Gupta [7] solved the problem of vibration of ortho- tropic rectangular plate of linearly varying thickness with thermal gradient effect. Orris and Petyt [8] study of the vibration of trapezoidal plate by using finite element me- thod. Narita, Maruyama and Sonada [9] studied the tran- sverse vibration of clamped trapezoidal plate having rec- tangular orthotropy. Mirza and Bijlani [10] discussed the vibration of triangular plates. Bhatnagar and Gupta [11] solved the problem of thermal effect on vibration of vis- co elastic elliptic plate of variable thickness. Transverse free vibration of fully clamped symmetrical trapezoidal plates was discussed by Sahba [12]. Laura, Gutierrez and Bhat [13] studied the transverse vibrations of a trapezoi- dal cantilever plate of variable thickness. Liew and Lam [14] studied a Rayleigh-Ritz approach to transverse vi- bration of isotropic and anisotropic trapezoidal plates using orthogonal plate functions. Problem of variable of symmetric laminated cantilever trapezoidal composite plates was solved by Liew [15].Liew and Lim [16] stu- died the transverse vibration of trapezoidal plates of va- riable thickness: symmetric trapezoids. Qatu, Jaber and Leissa [17] work out to analyze the natural frequencies for completely free trapezoidal plates. Vibration of pret- wisted cantilever trapezoidal symmetric laminates was discussed by Lim and Liew [18]. Sakiyama and Hung [19] studied the free vibration analysis of right triangular plates with variable thickness. Lal [20] studied the trans- verse vibration of orthotropic non uniform rectangular plate with continuously varying density. Leissa [21] dis- cussed the historical bases of the Rayleigh and Ritz me- thods. Chi-Hung, Chien and Yen-Kuang [22] did expe- rimental and numerical investigations for the free vibra- tion of cantilever trapezoidal plates. Gupta, Johri and Vats [23,24] work out to investigate the thermal effect on vibration of non homogeneous orthotropic rectangular plate having bi-directional varying thickness. Karami, Shahpari and Malekzadeh [25] have applied Differential Quadrature Method (DQM) for static, free vibration, and stability analysis of skewed and trapezoidal composite thin plates without hole. Recently, Gupta and Sharma [26] solved the problem of thermally induced vibration of orthotropic trapezoidal plate of linearly varying thick- ness. From the review of available literature it is observed that the linearly temperature on transverse vibration of non-homogeneous orthotropic trapezoidal plate of para- bolically varying thickness with non-homogeneity effect has not been studied. So it is necessary to analyze this kind of problem using elasticity theory based Rayleigh Ritz method to evaluate for the most accurate behavior of frequencies of the plate. Therefore, a method is devel- oped to study the problem both theoretically and experi- mentally. In order to calculate natural frequencies for first and second mode of vibration, Rayleigh Ritz method is used. The frequencies for the first and second mode of vibration are calculated for the trapezoidal plate having C-S-C-S edges for the different values of taper constant , thermal gradient and aspect ratio and presented in graph- ically form. 2 Method of Analysis Let us assume that orthotropic trapezoidal plate under consideration is subjected to steady one dimensional temperature distribution along the length, therefore one can take as, 0 1 12 (1) where 0 is the temperature at 1 2 . For most orthotropic materials modulus of elasticity are described as a function of temperature as, 1 2 0 1 1 1 EE EE GG (2) Using Equation (1), Equation (2) becomes 1 2 0 1 12 1 12 1 12 EE EE GG (3) where 12 0 ,EEandGare the values of moduli at some reference temperature, i.e. 0 . A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 3 The parabolically varying plate thickness can be ex- press as, 0 hxhg x (4) where g(x) is the thickness variation function. The non-dimensional thickness variation function can be expressed as, 2 1 11, 0 2 gg (5) With the assumption of small free vibration, the dis- placement function is periodic in time so it can be ex- pressed as, ,,, sinwxyt Wxyt where denotes the frequency of vibration. The energy functional for the plate is, F VT (6) The expression for the strain energy V and kinetic energy T in the plate is given by, 22 22 22 22 122 2 2 2 2 4 ab WW VD D WW D W Ddd (7) 22 0 2 ab ThgWdd (8) Expression for flexural rigidity and torsion rigidity are, 3 2 3 10 11 111 22 12 1 Eh D (9) 3 2 3 20 11 111 22 12 1 Eh D (10) 3 2 3 00 11 111 22 12 Gh D (11) Also 1 DDD Introducing non–dimensional coordinate system as , x ayb where a and b are the span and width of the plate plan form as shown in Figure 1. To apply Rayleigh Ritz technique, one must has 0F (12) The two term deflection function taken as, 2 2 12 1 224 1 224 1 2 1 242 24 bc bc w bc bc AA bc bc bc bc (13) where A1 and A2 are constants. The orthotropic plate with symmetric parabolically varying thickness and symmetric trapezoidal plan form is taken. The thickness h0 is along the edge x = –a/2 and 0 h is the plate thickness at the edge x = a/2, where is the thickness variation ratio. Two edges of the plates are clamped and two are sim- ply supported i.e. all the four degree of freedoms of the nodes to the side faces of the plates are constrained as shown in the Figure 1. Here limit of is 42 cba bc bb to 42 cba bc bb and limit of is –0.5 to 0.5. Figure 1. The geometry of symmetry trapezoidal thin plate. A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 4 Assume that the density varies parabolically in x di- rection. 2 1 11 0.5 ox where α1 is the non homogeneity of the plate. Substitute Equations (5), (9) to (11) and (13) in Equa- tions (7) and (8), one has 3 01 4 32 22 2 3 02 4 32 22 2 3 01 22 1 12 24 1 1 112 1 12 24 1 1 112 1 61 habE Va Wdd habE b Wdd hE ab 3 222 22 3 00 22 32 22 1 2 1 112 1 12 3 1 112 WW dd hG ab Wdd (14) 2 00 2 22 1 2 1 110.5 112 ab Th x Wdd (15) Using Equations (14) and (15) in (6) we have, 2 11 0VT (16) Where 3 2 1 22 22 2 22 1 22 2 22 1 2 2 0 1 11 111 22 2 (1 ) 4 V E WW E EWW E GWdd E 2 11 2 2 11 0.5 1 112 Tx Wdd and 25 0 2 2 10 12 1a Eh is a frequency parameter. Equation (16) contains two unknown constants A1 and A2 which can be evaluated as 2 11 () 0, 1,2 n VT n A (17) The Equation (17) simplifies to the form 112 20, 1,2 nn cA cAn (18) where cn1 and cn2 (n = 1,2) involves parametric constants and frequency parameter. For a non-zero solution, the coefficient matrix of Equ- ation (18) must be zero. In this way the frequency equa- tion must comes out to be 11 12 21 22 0 cc cc (19) From Equation (19) one can obtain a quadratic equa- tion in 2 from which two values of 2 can be found. 3 Results and Discussion Numerical results are obtained for the first two modes of vibrations for transverse vibration of non-homogeneous orthotropic trapezoidal plate of parabolically varying thi- ckness with thermal gradient effect and non-homo- gene- ity effect for different values of aspect ratios. Frequency (19) is quadratic in 2 , so it will give two roots. The parameters for orthotropic material have been taken as [3]: 0 22 111 0.32,0.04, 10.09 G EE EEE These results are plotted in Figures 2-9. A study will now be presented for a set of trapezoidal plate configurations by varying c/b and a/b values. In Figure 2, results have been displayed for the fol- lowing values: a/b = 1.0, c/b = 0.5, α = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 β = 0.0, 0.2 α1 = 0.0, 0.2 It can be concluded that with the increase in thermal gradient, frequency decreases for both the modes. Result have been displayed for the following values a/b = 1.0, c/b = 0.5 A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 5 Figure 2. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of thermal gradient and fixed values for a/b = 1, c/b = 0.5. Figure 3. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of taper constant and fixed values for a/b = 1, c/b = 0.5. A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 6 Figure 4. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of thermal gradient and fixed values for a/b = 0.75, c/b = 0.5. Figure 5. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of taper constant and fixed values for a/b = 0.75, c/b = 0.5. A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 7 Figure 6. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of non homogeneity and fixed values for a/b = 1.0, c/b = 0.5. Figure 7. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of non homogeneity and fixed values for a/b = 0.75, c/b = 0.5. A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 8 Figure 8. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of c/b and fixed val- ues for a/b = 1. Figure 9. Value of frequency parameter for orthotropic trapezoidal plate for different values of c/b and fixed val- ues for a/b = 0.75. A. K. GUPTA ET AL. Copyright © 2011 SciRes. AM 9 β = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 α = 0.0, 0.2 α1 = 0.0, 0.2 In Figure 3. It can be concluded that with the increase in taper constant, frequency increases for both the modes. In Figure 4, results have been displayed for the fol- lowing values: a/b = 0.75, c/b = 0.5 α = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 β = 0.0, 0.2 α1 = 0.0, 0.2 It can be concluded that with the increase in thermal gradient, frequency decreases for both the modes. Figure 5 show the results for the following values: a/b = 0.75, c/b = 0.5 β = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 α = 0.0, 0.2 α1 = 0.0, 0.2 and it can be concluded that with the increase in taper constant ,frequency increases for both the modes. In Figure 6, results have been displayed for the fol- lowing values: a/b = 1.0, c/b = 0.5 α1 = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 β = 0.0, 0.2 α = 0.0, 0.2 It can be concluded that with the increase in non ho- mogeneity, frequency decreases for both the modes. In Figure 7, results have been displayed for the fol- lowing values: a/b = 0.75, c/b = 0.5 α1 = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 β = 0.0, 0.2 α = 0.0, 0.2 It can be concluded that with the increase in non ho- mogeneity, frequency decreases for both the modes. In Figure 8, results have been displayed for the fol- lowing values: a/b = 1.0; c/b = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0; β = 0.0, 0.2; α = 0.0, 0.2 α1 = 0.0, 0.2 It can be concluded that with the increase in the value of c/b, frequency decreases for both the modes and for all combinations of α, α1 and β. In Figure 9, results have been displayed for the fol- lowing values: a/b = 0.75; c/b = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0; β = 0.0, 0.2; α = 0.0, 0.2 α1 = 0.0, 0.2 It can be concluded that with the increase in the value of c/b, frequency decreases for both the modes and for all combinations of α, α1 and β. 4. Conclusions The paper presented a comprehensive review for the ana- lysis of the linear vibration characteristics of orthotropic trapezoidal plates. 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