Model Validation and Vibration Analysis of Cosserat Plates
This work provides a validation tool for Cosserat plate models, which is incremental for researchers in elastic plate theory.
The paper validates a mathematical model for Cosserat elastic plate dynamics by comparing eigenfrequencies with exact 3D solutions, achieving high agreement and detecting frequency splitting due to micro-element orientation.
In this paper we present the validation of our recently published mathematical model for the dynamics of Cosserat elastic plates. The validation is based on the comparison with the exact solution of the 3-dimensional Cosserat elastodynamics. The preliminary computations of eigenfrequencies show the high agreement with the exact values. The computations allow us to detect the splitting of the frequencies of vibrations (micro vibration) depending on the orientation of micro elements. This provided us with a powerful tool for distinguishing between the frequencies of the micro and macro vibrations of the plate.