In this paper, vibration analysis of rotary tapered axially functionally graded (AFG) Timoshenko nanobeam is investigated in a thermal environment based on nonlocal theory. The governing equations of motion and the related boundary conditions are derived by means of Hamilton’s principle based on the first order shear deformation theory of beams. The solution method is considered using generalized differential quadrature element (GDQE) method. The accuracy of results are validated by other results reported in other references. The effect of various parameters such as AFG index, rate of cross section change, angular velocity, size effect and boundary conditions on natural frequencies are discussed comprehensively. The results show that with increasing angular velocity, non-dimensional frequency is increased and it depends on size effect parameter. Also, in the zero angular velocity, it can be seen with increasing AFG index, the frequencies are reducing, but in non-zero angular velocity, AFG index shows complex behavior on frequency. Manuscript profile

The damping vibration characteristics of magneto-electro-viscoelastic (MEV) nanobeam resting on viscoelastic foundation based on nonlocal strain gradient elasticity theory (NSGT) is studied in this article. For this purpose, by considering the effects of Winkler-Pasternak, the viscoelastic medium consists of linear and viscous layers. with respect to the displacement field in accordance with the refined shear deformable beam theory (RSDT) and the Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic damping model, the governing equations of motion are obtained using Hamilton’s principle based on nonlocal strain gradient theory (NSGT). Using Fourier Series Expansion, The Galerkin’s method adopted to solving differential equations of nanobeam with both of simply supported and clamped boundary conditions. Numerical results are obtained to show the influences of nonlocal parameter, the length scale parameter, slenderness ratio and magneto-electro-mechanical loadings on the vibration behavior of nanobeam for both types of boundary conditions. It is found that by increasing the magnetic potential, the dimensionless frequency can be increased for any value of the damping coefficient and vice versa. Moreover, negative/positive magnetic potential decreases/increases the vibration frequencies of thinner nanobeam. Also, the vibrating frequency decreases and increases with increasing nonlocal parameter and length scale parameter respectively. Manuscript profile

This paper represented a numerical technique for discovering the vibrational behavior of a two-directional FGM (2-FGM) nanobeam exposed to thermal load for the first time. Mechanical attributes of two-directional FGM (2-FGM) nanobeam are changed along the thickness and length directions of nanobeam. The nonlocal Eringen parameter is taken into the nonlocal elasticity theory (NET). Uniform temperature rise (UTR), linear temperature rise (LTR), non-linear temperature rise (NLTR) and sinusoidal temperature rise (STR) during the thickness and length directions of nanobeam is analyzed. Third-order shear deformation theory (TSDT) is used to derive the governing equations of motion and associated boundary conditions of the two-directional FGM (2-FGM) nanobeam via Hamilton’s principle. The differential quadrature method (DQM) is employed to achieve the natural frequency of two-directional FGM (2-FGM) nanobeam. A parametric study is led to assess the efficacy of coefficients of two-directional FGM (2-FGM), Nonlocal parameter, FG power index, temperature changes, thermal rises loading and temperature rises on the non-dimensional natural frequencies of two-directional FGM (2-FGM) nanobeam. Manuscript profile

In this article, transverse vibration of a cantilever nano- beam with functionally graded materials and carrying a concentrated mass at the free end is studied. Material properties of FG beam are supposed to vary through thickness direction of the constituents according to power-law distribution (P-FGM). The small scale effect is taken into consideration based on nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen. The nonlocal equations of motion are derived based on Timoshenko beam theory in order to consider the effect of shear deformation and rotary inertia. Hamilton’s principle is applied to obtain the governing differential equation of motion and boundary conditions and they are solved applying analytical solution. The purpose is to study the effects of parameters such as tip mass, small scale, beam thickness, power-law exponent and slenderness on the natural frequencies of FG cantilever nano beam with a point mass at the free end. It is explicitly shown that the vibration behavior of a FG Nano beam is significantly influenced by these effects. The response of Timoshenko Nano beams obtained using an exact solution in a special case is compared with those obtained in the literature and is found to be in good agreement. Numerical results are presented to serve as benchmarks for future analyses of FGM cantilever Nano beams with tip mass. Manuscript profile

In this research, the effect of rotation on the free vibration is investigated for the size-dependent cylindrical functionally graded (FG) nanoshell by means of the modified couple stress theory (MCST). MCST is applied to make the design and the analysis of nano actuators and nano sensors more reliable. Here the equations of motion and boundary conditions are derived using minimum potential energy principle and first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The formulation consists of the Coriolis, centrifugal and initial hoop tension effects due to the rotation. The accuracy of the presented model is verified with literatures. The novelty of this study is the consideration of the rotation effects along with the satisfaction of various boundary conditions. Generalized differential quadrature method (GDQM) is employed to discretize the equations of motion. Then the investigation has been made into the influence of some factors such as the material length scale parameter, angular velocity, length to radius ratio, FG power index and boundary conditions on the critical speed and natural frequency of the rotating cylindrical FG nanoshell. Manuscript profile

Atomic force microscope (AFM) has been developed at first for topography imaging; in addition, it is used for characterization of mechanical properties. Most researches have been primarily focused on rectangular single-beam probes to make vibration models simple. Recently, the U-shaped AFM probe is employed to determine sample elastic properties and has been developed to heat samples locally. In this study, a simplified analytical model of these U-shaped AFM is described and three beams have been used for modelling this probe. This model contains two beams are clamped at one end and connected with a perpendicular cross beam at the other end. The beams are supposed only in bending flexure and twisting, but their coupling allows a wide variety of possible dynamic behaviors. In the present research, the natural frequency and sensitivity of flexural and torsional vibration for AFM probes have been analyzed considering influence of scale effect. For this purpose, governing equations of dynamic behavior of U-shaped AFM probe are extracted based on Eringen's theory using Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and an analytical method is employed to solve these equations. The results in this paper have been extracted for different values of nonlocal parameters; it is shown that for a special case, there is a good agreement between reported results in available references and our results. The obtained results show that the frequencies of U-shaped AFM decrease with increasing the nonlocal parameter. Manuscript profile

The nanostructures under rotation have high promising future to be used in nano-machines, nano-motors and nano-turbines. They are also one of the topics of interests and it is new in designing of rotating nano-systems. In this paper, the scale-dependent vibration analysis of a nanoplate with consideration of the axial force due to the rotation has been investigated. The governing equation and boundary conditions are derived using the Hamilton’s principle based on nonlocal elasticity theory. The boundary conditions of the nanoplate are considered as free-free in y direction and two clamped-free (cantilever plate) and clamped-simply (propped cantilever) in x direction. The equations have been solved using differential quadrature method to determine natural frequencies of the rotating nanoplate. For validation, in special cases, it has been shown that the obtained results coincide with literatures. The effects of the nonlocal parameter, aspect ratio, hub radius, angular velocity and different boundary conditions on the first three frequencies have been investigated. Results show that vibration behavior of the rotating nanoplate with cantilever boundary condition is different from other boundary conditions. Manuscript profile

The free vibration analysis of rotating functionally graded (FG) nano-beams under an in-plane thermal loading is provided for the first time in this paper. The formulation used is based on Euler-Bernoulli beam theory through Hamilton’s principle and the small scale effect has been formulated using the Eringen elasticity theory. Then, they are solved by a generalized differential quadrature method (GDQM). It is supposed that, according to the power-law form (P-FGM), the thermal distribution is non-linear and material properties are dependent to temperature and are changing continuously through the thickness. Free vibration frequencies are obtained for two types of boundary conditions; cantilever and propped cantilever. The novelty of this work is related to vibration analysis of rotating FG nano-beam under different distributions of temperature with different boundary conditions using nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. Presented theoretical results are validated by comparing the obtained results with literature. Numerical results are presented in both cantilever and propped cantilever nano-beams and the influences of the thermal, nonlocal small-scale, angular velocity, hub radius, FG index and higher modes number on the natural frequencies of the FG nano-beams are investigated in detail. Manuscript profile