Research Article
Free Vibration and Static Bending Analysis of Piezoelectric
Functionally Graded Material Plates Resting on One Area of
Two-Parameter Elastic Foundation
Hong Nguyen Thi
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, uyloi University, 175 Tay Son, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam
Correspondence should be addressed to Hong Nguyen i; hong_hh@tlu.edu.vn
Received 10 August 2020; Revised 19 October 2020; Accepted 8 November 2020; Published 25 November 2020
Academic Editor: Nerio Tullini
Copyright © 2020 Hong Nguyen i. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
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Free vibration and static bending analysis of piezoelectric functionally graded material plates resting on one area of the two-
parameter elastic foundation is firstly investigated in this paper. e third-order shear deformation theory of Reddy and 8-node
plate elements are employed to derive the finite element formulations of the structures; this theory does not need any shear
correction factors; however, the mechanical response of the structure is described exactly. Verification problems are performed to
evaluate the accuracy of the proposed theory and mathematical model. A wide range of parameter study is investigated to figure
out the effect of geometrical, physical, and material properties such as the plate dimension, volume fraction index, piezoelectric
effect, elastic foundation coefficients, and the square size of the area of the foundation on the free vibration and static bending of
piezoelectric functionally graded material plates. ese numerical results of this work aim to contribute to scientific knowledge of
these smart structures in engineering practice.
1. Introduction
Nowadays, due to the development of the science of tech-
nology, a huge range of smart materials such as functionally
graded materials, shape memory alloys, shape memory
polymers, magnetostrictive materials, and piezoelectric
materials has been considered and applied to engineering
practice, in which piezoelectric materials with mainly two-
component actuators and sensors are employed and per-
formed in a wide range of engineering structures [1–5].
Normally, one smart structure is commonly made of lam-
inated composites from ceramic proportions. erefore, at
the surfaces among such layers, due to discontinuities of
different materials, the stress concentrations usually occur;
thus, this is one of the main reasons deriving the failures of
the laminated composite structures. However, this issue can
be easily overcome by taking advantage of functionally
graded piezoelectric materials (FGPM). In the last few de-
cades, considering the mechanical behavior of piezoelectric
FGM structures has become more irresistible. To confirm
this knowledge, numerous published scientific papers re-
lating to piezoelectric analyses for FGPM plates can be found
in [6–16]. As a result, in this work, we do not need to talk
about the basic information of FGM structures as several
types of FGM materials such as power-law functionally
graded materials (P-FGM), sigmoid law functionally graded
materials (S-FGM), and exponential law functionally graded
materials (E-FGM) were presented in detail in [17, 18]. e
mechanical performances of these FGM structures are also
investigated in the following papers. Tinh et al. [19] studied
mechanical behaviors of heated functionally graded plates in
the high-temperature environment by using the finite ele-
ment method and a new third-order shear deformation plate
theory. Nguyen and his coworkers [20] investigated the
mechanical buckling of stiffened functionally graded ma-
terial (FGM) plates. A wide range of studied parameters was
carried out such as the effects of material distribution, the
thickness-to-width ratio, and stiffener parameters on the
buckling characteristics of the stiffened FGM plates. Nam
et al. [21] used the finite element method and the phase-field
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2020, Article ID 9236538, 18 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9236538