Periodic and Chaotic Oscillations of Laminated Composite Piezoelectric Rectangular Plate With 1:3 Internal Resonance

The chaotic dynamics of parametrically excited, simply supported laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plates are analyzed, The plates are forced by transverse loads. It is assumed that different layers are perfectly bonded to each other with piezoelectric actuator patches embedded in them. Firstly, based on von Karman-type equations and third-order shear deformation laminate theory of Reddy, the nonlinear equations of motions of the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plates are derived. Here, we consider the piezoelectric parametric loads and in-plane parametric loads acting in both x-direction and y-direction. Then, the Galerkin’s approach is applied to convert partial differential equations to the ordinary differential equations. The method of multiple scales is used to obtain the averaged equations. Finally, based on the averaged equations, periodic and chaotic motions of the plates are found by using numerical simulation. The numerical results show the existence of periodic and chaotic motions in averaged equations. The chaotic responses are sensitive to initial conditions especially to forcing loads and the parametric excitation.Copyright © 2007 by ASME