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CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 259-342, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.065.259
Abstract This paper investigates the problem of free vibrations of multilayered plates and shells embedding anisotropic and thickness polarized piezoelectric layers. Carrera's Unified Formulation (CUF) has been employed to implement a large variety of electro-mechanical plate/shell theories. So-called Equivalent Single Layer and Layer Wise variable descriptions are employed for mechanical and electrical variables;linear to fourth order expansions are used in the thickness direction z in terms of power of z or Legendre polynomials. Various forms are considered for the Principle of Virtual Displacements (PVD) and Reissner's Mixed Variational Theorem (RMVT) to derive consistent differential electro-mechanical governing equations. The effect of electro-mechanical… More >
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