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Marcin Kamiński1, Agnieszka Lenartowicz2, Michał Guminiak3
1Department of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture & Environmental Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Al. Politechniki 6, 90-924 Lodz, Poland.
Abstract:
The main motivation of this work was to present a semi-analytical extension of the correspondence principle in stochastic dynamics. It is demonstrated for the stochastic structural free vibrations of Kirchhoff-Love elastic, isotropic and rectangular plates supported by viscoelastic generalized Maxwell dampers. The ambient temperature of the plate affects the dampers only and is included in a mathematical model using the frequency-temperature correspondence principle. The free vibration problem of the plate-viscoelastic damper system is solved using the continuation method and also the Finite Element Method (FEM). The stochastic approach begins with an initial deterministic sensitivity analysis to detect the most influential parameters and numerical FEM recovery of the polynomial representation for lower eigenfrequencies versus these parameters. A final symbolic integration leads to the first four basic probabilistic characteristics, all delivered as functions of the input uncertainties.
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