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Solutions have been obtained for the harmonic vibrations of five-layer plates by means of a finite element method. This method is an extension of a previously developed analysis for three-layer plates. The five-layer plates contain two constrained viscoelastic layers which provide the damping. The degenerate case when the thickness of the middle elastic layer becomes zero and the plate is reduced to a four-layer one has also been included in the solution procedure. Moreover, the method allows for the study of both torsional and transverse vibrations of five (or four)-layer beams treated as vibrating plates with a large aspect ratio. As in the case of three-layer plates, triangular finite elements are used to allow for a greater variety of shapes. In the analysis damping is introduced by replacing the real moduli of the viscoelastic material by complex equivalent moduli which account for the phase difference between strain and stress. The present method allows for the non-linear stress-strain behaviour of the viscoelastic layers, the effects of the rotatory inertia and the extension within the viscoelastic layers. The finite element computations have been verified by comparison with experimental results for four-layer and five-layer beams in transverse and torsional vibrations and a five-layer square plate in transverse vibration.

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A Finite Element Analysis of the Harmonic Response of Damped Five-Layer Plates

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