Resonant vibrations of a clamped viscoelastic rectangular plate

The paper examines the effect of dissipative heating on the performance of a sensor in a viscoelastic rectangular plate undergoing resonant vibrations. The thermoviscoelastic behavior of materials is described using the concept of complex characteristics. The coupling of the electromechanical and thermal fields is taken into account. The nonlinear problem is solved by the Bubnov-Galerkin method. The effect of the mechanical boundary conditions and dissipative-heating temperature on the performance of the sensors is analyzed © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.