Considering the number of applications, and the quantity of research conducted over the
past few decades, it would not be an overstatement to label the piezoelectric materials as …

Polymer-based piezoelectric composites (PPCs) demonstrate superior mechanical-
vibrational energy harvesting and dissipating (EHD) capabilities. Piezoelectric materials …

The paper presents an efficient numerical approach to deal with the hybrid damping
vibration control of laminated functionally graded carbon-nanotube reinforced composite …

This paper presents a novel and comprehensive numerical approach for nonlinear analysis
and smart damping control in laminated functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced …

In this paper, a fractional viscoelastic model is presented for vibration analysis of a fully
simply supported plate excited by the supports movement. To govern the steady-state …

This paper presents a finite element formulation specifically developed for the transient
dynamic analysis of free layer damping plates, in which the viscoelastic behaviour of …

Nonlinear vibrations of fractional viscoelastic plate with Kelvin–Voigt fractional order
constitutive relationship is investigated in this paper. Based on the Kirchhoff hypothesis for …

The refined zig-zag theory is used to solve the dynamic problems for composite sandwich
plates made from the elastic and the viscoelastic (VE) layers. The linear constitutive relations …

The paper is devoted to a review of recent achievements in the field of dynamic analysis of
structures and structural elements, such as beams and plates, with embedded viscoelastic …

This article investigates the effect of smart damping on bi-directionally tapered functionally
graded sandwich plates. The substrate comprises FG material on both sides of the core of …