Abstract
Vibration suppression analysis of a laminated composite plate embedded magnetostrictive layers is presented with/without the transverse shear and normal strains effects are taken into account in this study. For purpose of vibration suppression, the velocity feedback control with constant gain distributed is applied. The formulation of problem is written to give five theories are Euler-Bernoulli’s classical plate theory, the Timoshenko’s first-order and Reddy’s third-order shear deformation plate theories, simple and refined sinusoidal shear deformation plate theories and other theories. The governing equations of motion are obtained using the Hamilton’s principle. Navier’s method is applied to discuss the solution of vibration problem at the simply-supported boundary conditions. Some effects are extensively studied and discussed such the impact of material properties, modes, thickness and number of the magnetostrictive layers, lamination schemes, magnitude of the feedback coefficient and location of the magnetostrictive layers on vibration suppression of the system. Numerical results are reported and illustrated, and various conclusions are formulated.