A viscoelastic Timoshenko beam: Model development, analysis, and investigation

Abstract

Vibrations are ubiquitous in mechanical or biological systems, and they are ruinous in numerous circumstances. We develop a viscoelastic Timoshenko beam model, which naturally captures distinctive power-law responses arising from a broad distribution of time-scales presented in the complex internal structures of viscoelastic materials and so provides a very competitive description of the mechanical responses of viscoelastic beams, thick beams, and beams subject to high-frequency excitations. We, then, prove the well-posedness and regularity of the viscoelastic Timoshenko beam model. We finally investigate the performance of the model, in comparison with the widely used Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam models, which shows the utility of the new model.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2022
Source ID
10.1063/5.0091043

Entities

People

  • Hong Wang
  • Xiangcheng Zheng
  • Yiqun Li

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • National Science Foundation
  • Peking University
  • University of South Carolina

Tags

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Materials Science and Engineering.