Free Vibration and Bending Analysis of Uniformly Distributed Carbon Nanotube Composite Plate Using Finite Element Method

Abstract

In this work, free vibration and bending behaviour of uniformly distributed carbon nanotube composite plate are analysed. The material properties of single-walled carbon nanotube evaluated through molecular dynamics simulation using LAMMPS software. The effective material properties of the composite plates are obtained using an extended rule of mixture. A finite element model is developed for the single-walled carbon nanotube composite plate using ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL) code in ANSYS environment. For the discretization purpose, an eight-noded serendipity shell element is used from the ANSYS library. Subsequently, the validation study is performed through the available published literature. Finally, the parametric study is demonstrated by varying different material and geometrical parameters for free vibration and bending responses of composite plate.