Active damping of geometrically nonlinear vibrations of laminated composite plates using vertically reinforced 1-3 piezoelectric composites

This paper addresses the analysis of active constrained layer damping (ACLD) of geometrically nonlinear transient vibrations of laminated composite plates using vertically reinforced 1-3 piezoelectric composite (PZC) as the material of the constraining layer of the ACLD treatment. The Von Kármán type nonlinear strain-displacement relations and the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) are used for deriving the coupled electromechanical nonlinear finite element model. The Golla–Hughes–McTavish (GHM) method has been used to model the constrained viscoelastic layer of the ACLD treatment in the time domain. The numerical results indicate that the ACLD patches significantly improve the damping characteristics of the cross-ply and antisymmetric angle-ply plates for suppressing the geometrically nonlinear transient vibrations of the plates.