摘要

This paper brings to light a new type of nonlinear resonant motion in a fiber-reinforced composite laminated rectangular thin plate, which is not reported in other literature. The investigated system is a simply supported symmetric cross-ply composite laminated rectangular thin plate subjected to parametric excitation whose frequency is near to the first-order natural frequency of the plate. This new phenomenon demonstrates that the responses of a low-order frequency mode can be excited by those of a high-order frequency mode. The high-order frequency is the first-order natural frequency of the test plate, and the low-order frequency here is lower than the first-order nature frequency. Experimental research works on the nonlinear vibrations of the composite laminated rectangular thin plate have been carried out for the first time. It is found from the experimental results that the nonlinear dynamic responses consist of four modes, whose frequencies include a lower frequency than the first-order natural frequency, 1/3 sub-harmonic, 2/3 sub-harmonic and the first-order natural frequencies. In this case, the amplitude of the mode for lower frequency is larger than those of modes for the aforementioned frequencies. Moreover, the theoretical job goes to analyze this new phenomenon. An analytical mode is given to explain the interactions between the first-order mode and the lower-frequency mode observed in the experiment. Based on Reddy's third-order shear deformation plate theory, the nonlinear governing equations of motion are formulated for the test plate under parametric excitation. Galerkin's method is utilized to discretize the partial differential governing equations of motion for the composite laminated rectangular thin plate to a two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system. The results of numerical simulations qualitatively agree very well with the experimental results. In addition, the multi-pulse chaotic motions are also found in numerical simulations.