1 Introduction

A key issue in various engineering field is that the prediction of the properties, behavior, and performance of different systems is an important aspect [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. Mechanical systems (MS) especially annular disks have many applications in different fields such as engineering, agriculture, and medicine [16,17,18,19]. MS and annular plates are classified based on a wide variety of applications such as geometry, application, and manufacturing process. In a class of MS strictures and disks such as resonators and generators, in which the fundamental part of the system oscillates, understanding the motion responses of the components of the structure becomes impressive [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29]. Also, some researchers tried to predict the static and dynamic properties of different structures and materials via neural network solution [30,31,32,33,34,35,36].

In the last several decades, many researchers and engineers have focused their efforts on the development and analysis of complex materials and structures to satisfy needs of an enhanced structural response [15, 37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46]. Using these unconventional materials, in fact, higher levels of stiffness and strength have been obtained without increasing the weight. Similarly, improvements have been achieved in terms of thermal properties, corrosion resistance, and fatigue life. Since there are an infinite technology’s demands for the mechanical properties’ improvement, multi-scale HNC reinforcement increased the consideration of scientists in the case of design enhancement of practical composites [47,48,49,50]. The reinforcement scale highly depends on the aim of the engineer where the structure should be used. A range of composites manufactured by macroscale reinforcement including carbon fiber (CF) in a certain orientation to boost the performance of the structure mechanically. Recently, it is revealed that composites enriched by multi-scale HNC are much more beneficial in real engineering applications. Thereby, the dynamics of the composites enhanced by multi-scale HNC is a significant area of research [51, 52].

In the field of the linear mechanics of an annular disk, Ebrahimi and Rastgoo [53] explored solution methods to analyze the vibration performance of the FG circular plate covered with piezoelectric. As another survey, Ebrahimi and Rastgoo [54] studied flexural natural frequencies of FG annular plate coupled with layers made of piezoelectric materials. Shasha et al. [55] introduce a novel exact model on the basis of surface elasticity and Kirchhoff theory to determine the vibration performance of a double-layered micro-circular plate. The surface effect is captured in their model as the main novelty. The results obtained with the aid of their modified model showed that the vibration performance of the double-layered microstructure is quite higher than the single-layered one. Gholami et al. [56] employed a more applicable gradient elasticity theory with the capability of including higher order parameters and the size effect in the analysis of the instability of the FG cylindrical micro-shell. Their results confirmed that the radius to thickness ratio and size effect have a significant influence on the stability of the microsystem. On the basis of the FSD theory, Mohammadimehr et al. [57] conducted a numerical study on the dynamic and static stability performance of a composite circular plate by implementing GDQM. Moreover, they considered the thermo-magnet field to define the sandwich structure model. As another work, Mohammadimehr et al. [58] applied DQM in the framework of MCS to describe stress filed and scrutinize the dynamic stability of an FG boron nitride nanotube-reinforced circular plate. They claimed that using reinforcement in a higher volume fraction promotes the strength and vibration response of the structure. Nonlinear oscillation and stability of micro-circular plates subjected to electrical field actuation and mechanical force are studied by Sajadi et al. [59]. They concluded that pure mechanical load plays a more dominant role on the stability characteristics of the structure in comparison with the electro-mechanical load. Also, they confirmed the positive impact of AC or DC voltage on the stability of the system in different cases of application. To determine the critical angular speed of spinning circular shell coupled with a sensor at its end, Safarpour et al. [60] applied GDQM to analyze forced and free oscillatory responses of the structure on the base of thick shell theory. Through a theoretical approach, Wang et al. [61] obtained critical temperature and thermal load of a nanocircular shell. Safarpour et al. [62] introduced a numerical technique with high accuracy to study the static stability, forced and free vibration performance of a nanosized FG circular shell in exposure to thermal site. Also, with the aid of fuzzy and neuromethods, many researchers presented the stability of the complex and composite structures [63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70].

In the field of the nonlinear mechanics of a disk, Ansari et al. [71] reported a mathematical model for investigation of the nonlinear dynamic responses of the compositional disk which is rested on an elastic media. The composite disk which they modeled is a CNT-reinforced FG annular plate. They employed the thick shear deformation and von Karman theories for considering the nonlinearity. Gholami et al. [72] presented the nonlinear static behavior of graphene plate-reinforced annular plate under a dynamical load and the structure is covered with the Winkler–Pasternak media. They applied Newton–Raphson and modified GDQ methods to access the nonlinear bending behavior of the graphene-reinforced disk. Furthermore, a huge number of researches focused on the mechanical properties and nonlinear dynamic responses of the size-dependent beam structures [73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80]. Also, many studies reported the application of applied soft computing method for prediction of the behavior of complex system [81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88].

In the field of the chaotic behavior of different systems, Krysko et al. [89] claimed that the first research on the nonlinear mechanics motion and chaotic responses of a micro-shell is done by them. They employed the couple stress theory for consideration of the size effect and modeled the material property as an isotropic shell. In addition, they used von Kármán and Kirchhoff’s theories for serving the nonlinearity impacts. Their results that consideration the nonlocal and length scale parameter cause to have the periodic vibration responses instead of chaotic and quasi-harmonic. Ghayesh et al. [90] focused on the mathematical model for investigation of the chaotic responses of a geometrically imperfect nanotube which allows fluid flow from the inside of the tube with the aid of nonlocal beam theory. They used the nonlocal strain radiant theory for considering the influences of the size effect parameter and couple stresses due to small effects. Their results presented that increasing the geometric imperfection and velocity of fluid flow leads to see the chaotic responses. With the aid of perturbation and higher order shear deformation methods, Karimiasl [91] investigated the chaotic behaviors of a doubly curved panel which is reinforced with graphene and carbon nanotube. The research showed that increasing the curvature effect leads to decrease the chaosity of the system. Ghayesh et al. [92] presented the chaos response of the nanotube using the nonlocal strain radiant Pertopation technique. In addition, they assumed that fluid can flow through the structure and they considered the viscoelastic parameters. As a result, they found that the velocity of the fluid flow can play an important role on the chaos analysis. Farajpour et al. [93] studied the bifurcation responses of a clamped–clamped micro-shell under a harmonic force and embedded in a viscoelastic media. They employ the couple stress theory for considering the size effect. Chen et al. [94] presented the chaos motion of a bear which is used as a shaft in a rotor. They focused on the investigation of the effect of excitation force and damping on the phase and Poincare map of the tapered shaft. Farajpour et al. [95] did a research on the bifurcation behavior of a microbeam using size-dependent couple stress theory and Galerkin method. They modeled the fluid flow with the aid of Beskok–Karniadakis method. They found that the chaos motion can decline by employing an imperfection. Ghayesh et al. [96] developed a mathematical model for the investigation of the bifurcation responses of a viscoelastic microplate via couple stress theory and Kelvin–Voigt model. In their result, they bolded the effect of the viscoelastic parameter on the nonlinear responses of the system. With the aid of Runge–Kutta, couple stress theory, and Galerkin methods, Wang et al. [97] revealed the chaos behaviors of a microplate under an electroelastic actuator. As a remarkable result, they claimed that could develop a novel theory for studying the Poincare map and bifurcation diagram of the microplate. Farajpour et al. [98] presented the effect of the couple stress and viscoelastic parameters on the Poincare and phase map of the imperfect microbeam using Beskok–Karniadaki model. Yang et al. [99] gave out a presentation about the nonlinear dynamic behavior of the electrically reinforced shell under thermal loading with the aid of Runge–Kutta and von Kármán models. They showed that external voltage plays a remarkable effect on chaos responses of the system. Ghayesh and Farokhi [75] run out a research on the chaos motion of a geometrically imperfect microbeam under external axial load along the length of the beams. Krysko et al. [100] investigated the chaos responses of a spherical rectangular micro-/nanoshell based on the von Karman model, Hamilton energy principle, Galerkin, and Runge–Kutta method. By having an exact explorer into the literature, no one can claim that there is any research on the chaos responses of a disk or annular plate.

To the best of authors’ knowledge, none of the published articles focused on analyzing the chaotic responses of the multi-scale hybrid nano-composite-reinforced disk in the thermal environment and subjected to a harmonic external load. In this survey, the extended model of Halpin–Tsai micromechanics is applied to determine the elastic characteristics of the composite structure. A numerical approach is employed to solve differential governing equations for different cases of boundary conditions. Eventually, a complete parametric study is carried out to reveal the impact of some geometrical and physical parameters on the quasi-harmonic and chaotic responses of the multi-scale hybrid nano-composite-reinforced disk.

2 Theory and formulation

2.1 Problem description

Figure 1 shows detail about the MHCD which is formulated for investigation of the chaotic behavior.

Fig. 1
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Geometry of a multi-hybrid reinforced composite disk in a thermal environment

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The homogenization procedure is presented according to the Halpin–Tsai model. The effective properties can be formulated as follows:

$$E_{11} = V_{\text{NCM}} E^{\text{NCM}} + V_{F} E_{11}^{F} ,$$
(1a)
$$\frac{1}{{E_{22} }} = \frac{{V_{\text{NCM}} }}{{E^{\text{NCM}} }} + \frac{1}{{E_{22}^{F} }} - \frac{{\frac{{(\nu^{\text{NCM}} )^{2} E_{22}^{F} }}{{E^{M} }} + \frac{{(\nu^{F} )^{2} E^{\text{NCM}} }}{{E_{22}^{F} }} - 2\nu^{F} \nu^{\text{NCM}} }}{{V_{\text{NCM}} E^{\text{NCM}} + V_{F} E_{22}^{F} }} - V_{F} V_{\text{NCM}} ,$$
(1b)
$$(G_{12} )^{ - 1} = \frac{{V_{\text{NCM}} }}{{G^{\text{NCM}} }} + \frac{{V_{F} }}{{G_{12}^{F} }},$$
(1c)
$$\rho = V_{\text{NCM}} \rho^{\text{NCM}} + V_{F} \rho^{F} ,$$
(1d)
$$\nu_{12} = V_{\text{NCM}} \nu^{\text{NCM}} + V_{F} \nu^{F} .$$
(1e)

The index of F, and NCM show fiber and nanocomposite matrix, respectively. Besides, have

$$V_{\text{NCM}} + V_{F} = 1.$$
(2)

The effective Young’s modulus of the nanocomposite with the aid of Halpin–Tsai–micromechanics theory can be presented as follows:

$$E^{\text{NCM}} = E^{M} \left( {(\frac{{3 + 6(l^{\text{CNT}} /d^{\text{CNT}} )\beta_{dl} V_{\text{CNT}} }}{{8 - 8\beta_{dl} V_{\text{CNT}} }})) + ((\frac{{5 + 10\beta_{dd} V_{\text{CNT}} }}{{8 - 8\beta_{dd} V_{\text{CNT}} }})} \right),$$
(3)

in which βdd and βdl are given by

$$\begin{gathered} \beta_{dd} = \frac{{(E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} /E^{M} )}}{{(E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} /E^{M} ) + (d^{\text{CNT}} /2t^{\text{CNT}} )}} - \frac{{(d^{\text{CNT}} /4t^{\text{CNT}} )}}{{(E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} /E^{M} ) + (d^{\text{CNT}} /2t^{\text{CNT}} )}}\,,\,\,\,\, \hfill \\ \beta_{dl} = \frac{{(E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} /E^{M} )}}{{(E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} /E^{M} ) + (l^{\text{CNT}} /2t^{\text{CNT}} )}} - \frac{{(d^{\text{CNT}} /4t^{\text{CNT}} )}}{{(E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} /E^{M} ) + (l^{\text{CNT}} /2t^{\text{CNT}} )}} \, {.} \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(4)

Besides, the \(V_{\text{CNT}}^{*}\) can be formulated as follows:

$$V_{\text{CNT}}^{ * } = \frac{{W_{\text{CNT}} }}{{W_{\text{CNT}} + (\frac{{\rho^{\text{CNT}} }}{{\rho^{M} }})(1 - W_{\text{CNT}} )}}.$$
(5)

Besides, the VCNT can be formulated as below:

$$\begin{gathered} V_{\text{CNT}} = V_{\text{CNT}}^{*} \frac{{\left| {\xi_{j} } \right|}}{h}{\text{ FG - X,}} \hfill \\ V_{\text{CNT}} = V_{\text{CNT}}^{*} \left( {1 + \frac{{2\xi_{j} }}{h}} \right){\text{ FG - V,}} \hfill \\ V_{\text{CNT}} = V_{\text{CNT}}^{*} \left( {1 - \frac{{2\xi_{j} }}{h}} \right){\text{ FG - A,}} \hfill \\ V_{\text{CNT}} = V_{\text{CNT}}^{*} {\text{ FG } - \text{ UD}}{.} \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(6)

Also, for \({\text{j = 1,2,}}...{,}Nt\), we have \(\xi_{j} = \left( {\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{{2N_{t} }} - \frac{j}{{N_{t} }}} \right)h\). For total volume fraction, we have

$$V_{\text{CNT}} + V_{M} = 1.$$
(7)

The effective shear module, Poisson’s ratio and mass density parameters of the nanocomposite matrix could be expressed as below:

$$\rho^{\text{NCM}} = \rho^{M} V_{M} + \rho^{\text{CNT}} V_{\text{CNT}} ,$$
(8a)
$$\nu^{\text{NCM}} = \nu^{M} ,$$
(8b)
$$G^{\text{NCM}} = \frac{{E^{\text{NCM}} }}{{2\left( {1 + \nu^{\text{NCM}} } \right)}}.$$
(8c)

Moreover, the expansion coefficients of the MHC is determined as

$$\alpha_{11} = \frac{{V_{f} E_{11}^{f} \alpha_{11}^{f} + V_{\text{NCM}} E^{\text{NCM}} \alpha^{\text{NCM}} }}{{V_{f} E_{11}^{f} + V_{\text{NCM}} E^{\text{NCM}} }},$$
(9a)
$$\alpha_{22} = (1 + V_{f} )V_{f} \alpha_{22}^{f} + (1 + V_{\text{NCM}} )V_{\text{NCM}} \alpha_{\text{NCM}} - \nu_{12} \alpha_{11} ,$$
(9b)

where \(\alpha^{\text{NCM}}\) which is equal to

$$\alpha_{\text{NCM}} = \frac{1}{2}\{ (\frac{{V_{\text{CNT}} E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} \alpha_{11}^{\text{CNT}} + V_{m} E_{m} \alpha_{m} }}{{V_{\text{CNT}} E_{11}^{\text{CNT}} + V_{m} E_{m} }})\} (1 - \nu^{\text{NCM}} ) + (1 + \nu_{m} )\alpha_{m} V_{m} + (1 + \nu^{\text{CNT}} )\alpha^{\text{CNT}} V_{\text{CNT}} .$$
(10)

2.2 Kinematic relations

The HOSD theory is chosen to define the corresponding displacement fields of the MHCD according to the subsequent relation:

$$\begin{aligned}& U\left( {R,z,t} \right) = - z\frac{{\partial w\left( {R,t} \right)}}{\partial R} + u\left( {R,t} \right) + \left( {\phi \left( {R,t} \right) + \frac{{\partial w\left( {R,t} \right)}}{\partial R}} \right)\left( {z - c_{1} z^{3} } \right),\\ & V\left( {R,z,t} \right) = 0, \\ & W\left( {R,z,t} \right) = w\left( {R,t} \right). \end{aligned}$$
(11)

Based on the conventional form of the high-order deformation theory [101], c1 is equal to 4/3h2. strain components would be written as

$$\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\varepsilon_{RR} } \\ {\varepsilon_{\theta \theta } } \\ {\gamma_{RZ} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} = z^{3} \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\kappa_{RR}^{**} } \\ {\kappa_{\theta \theta }^{**} } \\ {\kappa_{RZ}^{**} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} + z^{2} \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\kappa_{RR}^{*} } \\ {\kappa_{\theta \theta }^{*} } \\ {\kappa_{RZ}^{*} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} + z\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\kappa_{RR} } \\ {\kappa_{\theta \theta } } \\ {\kappa_{RZ} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} + \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\varepsilon_{RR}^{0} } \\ {\varepsilon_{\theta \theta }^{0} } \\ {\gamma_{RZ}^{0} } \\ \end{array} } \right\},$$
(12)

where \(\varepsilon_{\theta \theta }\) and \(\varepsilon_{RR}\) indicate the corresponding normal strains in θ and R directions. Also, \(\gamma_{RZ}\) presents the shear strain in the RZ plane. Equation (12) would be formulated as

$$\begin{gathered} \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\kappa_{RR}^{**} } \\ {\kappa_{\theta \theta }^{**} } \\ {\kappa_{RZ}^{**} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} = \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} { - c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}}} \right)} \\ { - \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}} + \phi } \right)} \\ { - c_{1} \left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial z}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{\partial R\partial z}} \right)} \\ \end{array} } \right\},\,\,\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\kappa_{RR}^{*} } \\ {\kappa_{\theta \theta }^{*} } \\ {\kappa_{RZ}^{*} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} = \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} 0 \\ 0 \\ { - 3c_{1} \left( {\phi + \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)} \\ \end{array} } \right\}, \hfill \\ \,\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\kappa_{RR} } \\ {\kappa_{\theta \theta } } \\ {\kappa_{RZ} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} = \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}}} \\ {\frac{1}{R}\phi } \\ {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial z}}} \\ \end{array} } \right\},\,\,\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\varepsilon_{RR}^{0} } \\ {\varepsilon_{\theta \theta }^{0} } \\ {\gamma_{RZ}^{0} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} = \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}} + \frac{1}{2}\left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)^{2} } \\ \frac{u}{R} \\ {\frac{\partial u}{{\partial z}} + \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \\ \end{array} } \right\}{. } \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(13)

2.3 Extended Hamilton’s principle

To acquire the governing equations and related boundary conditions, we can utilize Hamilton’s principle as below [17,18,19, 102,103,104,105,106,107]:

$$\int_{{t_{1} }}^{{t_{2} }} {\left( {\delta T - \delta U + \delta W_{1} + \delta W_{2} + \delta W_{3} } \right)dt = 0} .$$
(14)

The following relation describes the components involved in the process of obtaining the strain energy of the aforementioned disk:

$$\begin{gathered} \delta U = \frac{1}{2}\int\limits_{V} {\sigma_{ij} } \delta \varepsilon_{ij} dV = \hfill \\ \int\limits_{{R_{1} }}^{{R_{2} }} {\left[ \begin{gathered} \left\{ {\frac{{\partial N_{RR} }}{\partial R} - \frac{{N_{\theta \theta } }}{R}} \right\}\delta u \hfill \\ + \left\{ {\frac{{\partial M_{RR} }}{\partial R} - \frac{{M_{\theta \theta } }}{R} - c_{1} \frac{{\partial P_{RR} }}{\partial R} + \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}P_{\theta \theta } - \left( {Q_{RZ} - 3c_{1} S_{RZ} } \right)} \right\}\delta \phi \hfill \\ + \left\{ {c_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} P_{RR} }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\frac{{\partial P_{\theta \theta } }}{\partial R} + \left( {\frac{{\partial Q_{RZ} }}{\partial R} - 3c_{1} \frac{{\partial S_{RZ} }}{\partial R}} \right) + \frac{\partial }{\partial R}\left( {N_{RR} \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)} \right\}\delta w \hfill \\ \end{gathered} \right]} \,dR. \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(15)

The resultants of the moment and force can be obtained as

$$\int_{z} {\left\{ {z^{3} ,z,1} \right\}\sigma_{RR} } dz = \left\{ {P_{RR} ,M_{RR} ,N_{RR} } \right\},$$
(16a)
$$\int_{z} {\left\{ {z^{3} ,z,1} \right\}\sigma_{\theta \theta } } dz = \left\{ {P_{\theta \theta } ,M_{\theta \theta } ,N_{\theta \theta } } \right\},$$
(16b)
$$\int_{z} {\left\{ {z^{2} ,1} \right\}\sigma_{Rz} } dz = \left\{ {S_{Rz} ,Q_{Rz} } \right\}.$$
(16c)

The variation of the work done by external force can be formulated as follows:

$$\delta W_{1} = \int\limits_{{R_{1} }}^{{R_{2} }} {q_{{{\text{dynamic}}}} } \delta wdR,$$
(17)

where q can be defined as follows:

$$q_{{{\text{dynamic}}}} = F\cos \left( {\Omega \,t} \right).$$
(18)

The applied work due damper coefficient can be presented as below:

$$\delta w_{2} = \int\limits_{{R_{1} }}^{{R_{2} }} {\left( {C\dot{w}\delta w} \right)} \,dR.$$
(19)

Furthermore, the variation of the work induced by thermal gradient is formulated as

$$\delta W_{3} = \int\limits_{{R_{1} }}^{{R_{2} }} {\left[ {N^{T} \frac{\partial w}{{\partial x}}\frac{\partial \delta w}{{\partial x}}} \right]} dR\,.$$
(20)

Force resultant of NT involved in Eq. (25) can be determined by the following relation:

$$N^{T} = \int_{ - h/2}^{h/2} {(\overline{Q}_{11} \alpha_{11} + \overline{Q}_{12} \alpha_{22} )\,(T\left( z \right) - T_{0} )dz} .$$
(21)

It is worth noting that in this study, one pattern is considered for the temperature gradient across the thickness as

$$T\left( z \right) = T_{0} + \Delta T\left( {\frac{1}{2} + \frac{z}{h}} \right).$$
(22)

The first variation of the kinetic energy would be formulated as

$$T = \frac{1}{2}\int\limits_{A} {\rho \left[ {(W_{,t} )^{2} + (V_{,t} )^{2} + (U_{,t} )^{2} } \right]dR{\text{dZ}}} ,$$
(23)
$$\delta T = \int_{{R_{1} }}^{{R_{2} }} {\rho \left[ {\frac{\partial \delta W}{{\partial t}}\frac{\partial W}{{\partial t}} + \frac{\partial \delta V}{{\partial t}}\frac{\partial V}{{\partial t}} + \frac{\partial \delta U}{{\partial t}}\frac{\partial U}{{\partial t}}} \right]} dR,$$
(24)
$$\delta T = \int_{{R_{1} }}^{{R_{2} }} {\left[ \begin{gathered} \left\{ { - I_{O} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }} - I_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + I_{3} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right)} \right\}\delta u \hfill \\ + \left\{ { - I_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }} - I_{2} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + I_{4} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right)} \right\}\delta \phi \hfill \\ + \left\{ {c_{1} I_{3} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }} + c_{1} I_{4} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} - I_{6} c_{1}^{2} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right)} \right\}\delta \phi \hfill \\ + \left\{ { - c_{1} I_{3} \frac{{\partial^{3} u}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} - c_{1} I_{4} \frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} + I_{6} c_{1}^{2} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{4} w}}{{\partial R^{2} \partial t^{2} }}} \right)} \right\}\delta w \hfill \\ + \left\{ { - I_{O} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial t^{2} }}} \right\}\delta w \hfill \\ \end{gathered} \right]} dR,$$
(25)

where \(\left\{ {I_{i} } \right\} = \int\limits_{{ - \frac{h}{2}}}^{\frac{h}{2}} {\left\{ {z^{i} } \right\}\rho^{\text{NCM}} dz} ,\,\,\,i = 1:6\). Now by replacing Eqs. (25), (20), (19), (17) and (15) into Eq. (14) the motion equations of MHCD can be formulated as following equations:

$$\delta u:\frac{{\partial N_{RR} }}{\partial R} - \frac{{N_{\theta \theta } }}{R} = - c_{1} I_{3} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right) + I_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + I_{0} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }},$$
(26a)
$$\begin{gathered} \delta w:c_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} P_{RR} }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\frac{{\partial P_{\theta \theta } }}{\partial R} + \frac{{\partial Q_{Rz} }}{\partial R} - 3c_{1} \frac{{\partial S_{Rz} }}{\partial R} + \frac{\partial }{\partial R}\left( {N_{RR} \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right) \hfill \\ \, - q - N^{T} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}{\text{ } + \text{ C}}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial t}} = c_{1} I_{3} \frac{{\partial^{3} u}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} \hfill \\ \, + c_{1} I_{4} \frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} - c_{1}^{2} I_{6} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{4} w}}{{\partial R^{2} \partial t^{2} }}} \right) + I_{0} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial t^{2} }}, \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(26b)
$$\begin{gathered} \delta \phi :\frac{{\partial M_{RR} }}{\partial R} - c_{1} \frac{{\partial P_{RR} }}{\partial R} - \frac{{M_{\theta \theta } }}{R} + \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}P_{\theta \theta } - Q_{Rz} + 3c_{1} S_{Rz} \hfill \\ \, = - c_{1} I_{4} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right) + + I_{2} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + I_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }} \hfill \\ \, - c_{1} I_{3} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }} - c_{1} I_{4} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + c_{1}^{2} I_{6} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right), \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(26c)

The boundary conditions are obtained as below:

$$\begin{gathered} \delta u = 0{\text{ or N}}_{RR} n_{R} = 0, \hfill \\ \delta w = 0{\text{ or }}\left[ {c_{1} \frac{{\partial P_{RR} }}{\partial R} - c_{1} \frac{{P_{\theta \theta } }}{R} + Q_{RZ} - 3c_{1} S_{RZ} + N_{RR} \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}} + N^{T} \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right]n_{R} = 0, \hfill \\ \delta \phi = 0{\text{ or }}\left[ { - c_{1} {\text{P}}_{RR} + {\text{M}}_{RR} } \right]n_{R} = 0. \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(27)

2.4 Governing equations

The stress–strain relation would be formulated as below [108,109,110,111,112,113]:

$$\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\sigma_{RR} } \\ {\sigma_{\theta \theta } } \\ {\tau_{RZ} } \\ \end{array} } \right\} = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\overline{Q}_{11} } & {\overline{Q}_{12} } & 0 \\ {\overline{Q}_{12} } & {\overline{Q}_{22} } & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & {\overline{Q}_{55} } \\ \end{array} } \right]\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c} {\varepsilon_{RR} } \\ {\varepsilon_{\theta \theta } } \\ {\gamma_{RZ} } \\ \end{array} } \right\},$$
(28)

with

$$\begin{gathered} \overline{Q}_{11} = Q_{11} \cos^{4} \theta + 2Q_{12} \sin^{2} \theta \cos^{2} \theta + Q_{22} \sin^{4} \theta , \hfill \\ \overline{Q}_{12} = Q_{12} \left( {\sin^{4} \theta + \cos^{4} \theta } \right) + \left( {Q_{11} + Q_{22} } \right)\sin^{2} \theta \cos^{2} \theta , \hfill \\ \overline{Q}_{21} = Q_{21} \left( {\sin^{4} \theta + \cos^{4} \theta } \right) + \left( {Q_{11} + Q_{22} } \right)\sin^{2} \theta \cos^{2} \theta , \hfill \\ \overline{Q}_{22} = Q_{22} \cos^{4} \theta + 2Q_{12} \sin^{2} \theta \cos^{2} \theta + Q_{11} \sin^{4} \theta , \hfill \\ \overline{Q}_{55} = Q_{55} \cos^{2} \theta . \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(29)

\(\theta\) is the orientation angle with [29, 64, 114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123]:

$$\begin{gathered} Q_{11} = E_{11} \frac{1}{{ - \nu_{12} \nu_{21} + 1}}, \, Q_{12} = \nu_{12} E_{22} \frac{1}{{ - \nu_{12} \nu_{21} + 1}},\,\,\,Q_{21} = \nu_{12} E_{11} \frac{1}{{ - \nu_{12} \nu_{21} + 1}}, \hfill \\ \, Q_{22} = \frac{{E_{22} }}{{ - \nu_{12} \nu_{21} + 1}}, \, Q_{55} = G_{12} . \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(30)

Finally, the governing equation of the MHCD can be obtained as follows:

$$\begin{gathered} \delta u:\left\{ {A_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + B_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - D_{11} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}} \right) + A_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right\} \hfill \\ \, + \left\{ {\frac{{A_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}} + \frac{{B_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} - \frac{{D_{12} c_{1} }}{R}\left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \left\{ {\frac{{A_{12} \partial u}}{R\partial R} + \frac{{B_{12} \partial \phi }}{R\partial R} - \left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right)\frac{{D_{12} c_{1} }}{R} + \frac{{A_{12} }}{2R}\left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)^{2} } \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \left\{ {\frac{{A_{22} }}{{R^{2} }}u + \frac{{B_{22} }}{{R^{2} }}\phi - \frac{{D_{22} c_{1} }}{R}\left( {\frac{\phi }{R} + \frac{1}{R}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, = - I_{3} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right) + I_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + I_{0} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }}, \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(31a)
$$\begin{gathered} \delta w:c_{1} \left\{ {D_{11} \frac{{\partial^{3} u}}{{\partial R^{3} }} + E_{11} \frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R^{3} }} - G_{11} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R^{3} }} + \frac{{\partial^{4} w}}{{\partial R^{4} }}} \right) + D_{11} \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}} + D_{11} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right)^{2} } \right\} \hfill \\ \, + c_{1} \left\{ {\frac{{D_{12} }}{R}\frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{{E_{12} }}{R}\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - \frac{{G_{12} c_{1} }}{R}\left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\left\{ {D_{12} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + E_{12} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - G_{12} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}} \right) + D_{12} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\left\{ {\frac{{\partial uD_{22} }}{R\partial R} + \frac{{\partial \phi E_{22} }}{R\partial R} - \frac{{G_{22} c_{1} }}{R}\left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, + \left( {A_{55} - 3C_{55} c_{1} } \right)\left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right) - 3c_{1} \left( {C_{55} - 3E_{55} c_{1} } \right)\left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right) \hfill \\ {\text{ } + \text{ A}}_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}{\text{ } + \text{ A}}_{11} \frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}}\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + {\text{B}}_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}{\text{ } + \text{ A}}_{11} \frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}}\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} \hfill \\ \, - D_{11} c_{1} \left( {\left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right)^{2} + \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }}{ + }\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}\frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}} \right) + {\text{A}}_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)^{2} \hfill \\ \, + {\text{A}}_{11} \left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)^{2} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}{ + }\frac{{{\text{A}}_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}} + \frac{{{\text{A}}_{12} }}{R}u\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}{ + }\frac{{{\text{B}}_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}} + \frac{{{\text{B}}_{12} }}{R}\phi \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} \hfill \\ \, - \frac{{D_{12} c_{1} }}{R}\left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}{ + }\phi \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + 2\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}\frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right) \hfill \\ \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, - q{\text{ } + \text{ C}}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial t}} - N^{T} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }} = I_{0} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial t^{2} }} - c_{1}^{2} I_{6} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{4} w}}{{\partial R^{2} \partial t^{2} }}} \right) \hfill \\ \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, + c_{1} I_{4} \frac{{\partial^{3} \phi }}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }} + c_{1} I_{3} \frac{{\partial^{3} u}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}, \hfill \\ \, \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(31b)
$$\begin{gathered} \delta \phi :\left\{ {B_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + C_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - E_{11} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}} \right) + B_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right\} \hfill \\ \, + \left\{ {\frac{{B_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}} + \frac{{C_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} - \frac{{E_{12} }}{R}c_{1} \left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - c_{1} \left\{ {D_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial R^{2} }} + E_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} - G_{11} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial R^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R^{3} }}} \right) + D_{11} \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - c_{1} \left\{ {\frac{{D_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}} + \frac{{E_{12} }}{R}\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} - \frac{{G_{12} }}{R}c_{1} \left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \frac{1}{R}\left\{ {B_{12} \frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}} + C_{12} \frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} - E_{12} c_{1} \left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right) + \frac{{B_{12} }}{2}\left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)^{2} } \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \frac{1}{R}\left\{ {B_{22} \frac{u}{R} + C_{22} \frac{\phi }{R} - E_{22} c_{1} \left( {\frac{\phi }{R} + \frac{1}{R}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, + \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\left\{ {D_{12} \frac{\partial u}{{\partial R}} + E_{12} \frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} - G_{12} c_{1} \left( {\frac{\partial \phi }{{\partial R}} + \frac{{\partial^{2} w}}{{\partial R^{2} }}} \right) + \frac{{D_{12} }}{2}\left( {\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)^{2} } \right\} \hfill \\ \, + \frac{{c_{1} }}{R}\left\{ {D_{22} \frac{u}{R} + E_{22} \frac{\phi }{R} - G_{22} c_{1} \left( {\frac{\phi }{R} + \frac{1}{R}\frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right)} \right\} \hfill \\ \, - \left( {A_{55} - 3C_{55} c_{1} } \right)\left( {\phi + \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right) + 3c_{1} \left( {C_{55} - 3E_{55} c_{1} } \right)\left( {\phi + \frac{\partial w}{{\partial R}}} \right) \hfill \\ \, = I_{6} c_{1}^{2} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right) - c_{1} I_{3} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }} - c_{1} I_{4} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} \hfill \\ \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, - I_{4} c_{1} \left( {\frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + \frac{{\partial^{3} w}}{{\partial R\partial t^{2} }}} \right) + I_{2} \frac{{\partial^{2} \phi }}{{\partial t^{2} }} + I_{1} \frac{{\partial^{2} u}}{{\partial t^{2} }}, \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(31c)

with \(\int_{{ - \frac{h}{2}}}^{\frac{h}{2}} {\left\{ {z^{6} ,z^{5} ,z^{4} ,z^{3} ,z^{2} ,z^{1} ,1} \right\}} \overline{Q}_{ij} dz = \left\{ {G_{ij} ,F_{ij} ,E_{ij} ,D_{ij} ,C_{ij} ,B_{ij} ,A_{ij} } \right\}\). So, Eqs. (31a–c) can be formulated as follows (for details, see ‘Appendix’):

$$L_{11} u\left( t \right) + L_{12} w\left( t \right) + L_{13} \phi \left( t \right) = M_{11} \ddot{u}\left( t \right) + M_{12} \ddot{w}\left( t \right) + M_{13} \ddot{\phi }\left( t \right),$$
(32a)
$$\begin{gathered} L_{21} u\left( t \right) + L_{22} w\left( t \right) + L_{23} \dot{w}\left( t \right) + L_{24} w^{3} \left( t \right) + L_{25} \phi \left( t \right) = \hfill \\ M_{21} \ddot{u}\left( t \right) + M_{22} \ddot{w}\left( t \right) + M_{23} \ddot{\phi }\left( t \right) + F\cos \left( {\Omega t} \right), \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(32b)
$$L_{31} u\left( t \right) + L_{32} w\left( t \right) + L_{33} \phi \left( t \right) = M_{31} \ddot{u}\left( t \right) + M_{32} \ddot{w}\left( t \right) + M_{33} \ddot{\phi }\left( t \right).$$
(32c)

3 Procedure to obtain the solution

To study the vibrational characteristics of a cylindrical micropanel, the GDQM [22, 60, 63, 120, 124,125,126,127,128,129,130] method which is a computational technique is used. A weighted linear sum of the function at all the discrete mesh points estimates the nth-order derivatives of a function with respect to its relative discrete points which must be within the total length of the domain [28, 131,132,133,134,135,136,137]. Hence, this function can be expressed as

$$\left. {\frac{{\partial^{r} f(x)}}{{\partial R^{r} }}} \right|_{{x = x_{p} }} = \sum\limits_{j = 1}^{n} {g_{ij}^{(r)} f(R_{i} )} ,$$
(33)

where g(r) are weighting coefficients of GDQM. From Eq. (33), it is apparent that calculating the weighting coefficients is the essential parts of DQM. To estimate the nth order derivatives of function along radius direction, two forms of DQM developed of GDQM are adopted in this study. Thus, the weighting coefficients are computed from the first-order derivative which is shown below [17,18,19]:

$$\begin{gathered} g_{ij}^{\left( 1 \right)} = \frac{{M\left( {R_{i} } \right)}}{{\left( {R_{i} - R_{j} } \right)M\left( {R_{j} } \right)}} i,j = 1:n\,\,\,\,{\text{and}}\,\,\,\,i \ne j, \hfill \\ g_{ii}^{\left( 1 \right)} = - \sum\limits_{j = 1,i \ne j}^{n} {C_{ij}^{\left( 1 \right)} } i = j, \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(34)

with

$$M\left( {R_{i} } \right) = \prod\limits_{j = 1,j \ne i}^{n} {\left( {R_{i} - R_{j} } \right)} .$$
(35)

Likewise, the weighting coefficients for higher order derivatives can be calculated using the shown expressions.

$$\begin{aligned} g_{ij}^{( r)} & = r\left[ {g_{ij}^{{( {r - 1})}} g_{ij}^{( 1)} - \frac{{g_{ij}^{{( {r - 1} )}} }}{{\left( {R_{i} - R_{j} } \right)}}} \right] \hfill \\ & 2 \le r \le n - 1\,\;{\text{and}}\;\,i,j = 1:n,i \ne j, \hfill \\ & g_{ii}^{\left( r \right)} = - \sum\limits_{j = 1,i \ne j}^{n} {g_{ij}^{\left( r \right)} } \hfill \\ & 2 \le r \le n - 1\,\;{\text{and}}\;\,i,j = 1:n. \hfill \\ \end{aligned}$$
(36)

In the presented research, the set of grid points is chosen as below:

$$R_{j} = \left( {1 - \cos \left( {\frac{{\left( {j - 1} \right)}}{{\left( {N_{j} - 1} \right)}}\pi } \right)} \right)\frac{b - a}{2} + a \quad j = 1:N_{j} .$$
(37)

For convenience, before solving the governing equation, displacement components are written in the following form to separate time and space variables:

$$u\left( {R,t} \right) = u\left( R \right)e^{{i\omega_{mn} t}} ,\,\,\,\,\,\,w\left( {R,t} \right) = w\left( R \right)e^{{i\omega_{mn} t}} ,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\phi_{x} \left( {R,t} \right) = \phi_{x} \left( R \right)e^{{i\omega_{mn} t}} .$$
(38)

Now, by substituting Eq. (38) into Eqs. (32a–c) and using Eq. (33) to solve the unknown functions u(t), w(t) and Øx(t) in terms of w(t), the nonlinear differential equation of disk can be driven as

$$\ddot{w}\left( t \right) + C\dot{w}\left( t \right) + P_{1} w\left( t \right) + P_{2} w^{2} \left( t \right) + \gamma w^{3} \left( t \right) = F\left( t \right)\cos \left( {\Omega t} \right),$$
(39)

where

$$\gamma = - \frac{{M_{21} + M_{22} + M_{23} }}{{L_{24} }};$$
(40)

subsequently, the panel linear oscillation can be defined as

$$\omega_{L} = \sqrt {P_{1} }$$
(41)

and \(\overline{\omega }_{L} = \omega_{L} b^{2} \sqrt {\frac{{\rho_{m} }}{{E_{m} }}} { ,}\) where by initial boundary conditions can be identified as

$$W_{mn} \left( 0 \right) = \frac{W}{h}, \, \left. {\frac{{dW_{mn} \left( t \right)}}{dt}} \right|_{t = 0} = 0.$$
(42)

By replacing the g(t) instead of W(t) in Eq. (39), and by considering F(t) and C equal to zero, we have the following equation:

$$\frac{{d^{2} g\left( t \right)}}{{dt^{2} }} + P_{1} \left\{ {g\left( t \right) + \zeta g^{3} \left( t \right)} \right\} = 0,$$
(43)

in which

$$\zeta = \frac{\gamma }{{P_{1} }}.$$
(44)

By implementing the homotopy perturbation method, solution for Eq. (44) can be given as

$$\frac{{d^{2} g\left( t \right)}}{{dt^{2} }} + \omega_{NL}^{2} g\left( t \right) + \xi \left\{ {\left( {P_{1} - \omega_{NL}^{2} } \right)g\left( t \right) + P_{1} \zeta g^{3} \left( t \right)} \right\} = 0,$$
(45)

where \(\xi \in \left[ {0,1} \right]\) is an integrated variable When \(\xi = 0\), Eq. (45) will be representing linear differential relation which is shown as

$$\frac{{d^{2} g\left( t \right)}}{{dt^{2} }} + \omega_{NL}^{2} g\left( t \right) = 0,$$
(46)

where

$$g\left( t \right) = g_{0} \left( t \right) + \xi g_{1} \left( t \right) + \xi^{2} g_{2} \left( t \right) + \ldots$$
(47)

Substituting Eq. (47) into Eq. (46), we get

$$\xi^{0} :\frac{{d^{2} g_{0} \left( t \right)}}{{dt^{2} }} + \omega_{NL}^{2} g_{0} \left( t \right) = 0, \, \left. {g_{0} } \right|_{t = 0} = \frac{W}{h}, \, \left. {\frac{{dg_{0} \left( t \right)}}{dt}} \right|_{t = 0} = 0,$$
(48a)
$$\begin{gathered} \xi^{1} :\frac{{d^{2} g_{1} \left( t \right)}}{{dt^{2} }} + \omega_{NL}^{2} g_{1} \left( t \right) + \left\{ {\left( {P_{1} - \omega_{NL}^{2} } \right)g_{0} \left( t \right) + P_{1} g_{0}^{3} \left( t \right)} \right\} = 0. \hfill \\ , \, \left. {g_{1} } \right|_{t = 0} = \frac{W}{h}, \, \left. {\frac{{dg_{1} \left( t \right)}}{dt}} \right|_{t = 0} = 0 \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(48b)

Hence, computing Eq. (48a) results in

$$g_{0} \left( t \right) = \frac{W}{h}\cos \left( {\omega_{NL} t} \right), \, a{ = }\frac{W}{h}.$$
(49)

Utilizing Eqs. (48b, 49), the following expression can be achieved as shown below:

$$\begin{gathered} \frac{{d^{2} g_{1} \left( t \right)}}{{dt^{2} }} + P_{1} g_{1} \left( t \right) + \left( {P_{1} - \omega_{NL}^{2} + \frac{3}{4}a^{2} \zeta P_{1} } \right)a\cos \left( {\omega_{NL} t} \right) \hfill \\ + \frac{1}{4}P_{1} a^{3} \zeta \cos \left( {3\omega_{NL} t} \right) = 0. \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$
(50)

Hence, elimination in terms of \(g_{0} \left( t \right)\) will yield

$$P_{1} - \omega_{NL}^{2} + \frac{3}{4}a^{2} \zeta P_{1} = 0,$$
(51)

in which the nonlinear form of the frequency of the MHCD would be formulated as

$$\omega_{NL} = \omega_{L} \sqrt {1 + \frac{3}{4}a^{2} \zeta } ,$$
(52)

where \(A^{*} = \frac{W}{{h^{2} }},\)

$$\omega_{NL} = \omega_{L} \sqrt {1 + \frac{3}{4}h^{2} \zeta {A^{*}}^{2} } .$$
(53)

3.1 Primary resonance

In this case, it is supposed that \({\omega }_{L}\) is near to \(\Omega\). So a parameter of σ is presented to illustrate the nearness of \(\Omega\) to \({\omega }_{0}\) as

$$\Omega = \omega_{0} + \sigma \varepsilon .$$
(54)

To study the oscillations and bifurcations of the nonlinear system, the multi-scale method is presented to investigate the nonlinear vibration responses of the nanocomposite annular plate [138]. The uniformly approximate solutions of Eq. (39) are obtained as

$$w = w_{0} \left( {T_{0} ,T_{1} ,T_{2} , \ldots } \right) + \varepsilon w_{1} \left( {T_{0} ,T_{1} ,T_{2} , \ldots } \right) + \varepsilon^{2} w_{2} \left( {T_{0} ,T_{1} ,T_{2} , \ldots } \right),$$
(55)

where T0 = t and T1 = εt. The excitation in terms of \({T}_{0}\) and \({T}_{1}\) is expressed as

$$F\left( t \right) = \varepsilon \overline{q}\cos \left( {\omega_{0} T_{0} + \sigma T_{1} } \right).$$
(56)

Then the derivatives with respect to t become

$$\frac{d}{dt} = D_{0} + \varepsilon D_{1} ,$$
(57a)
$$\frac{{d^{2} }}{{dt^{2} }} = D_{0}^{2} + 2\varepsilon D_{0} D_{1} + \varepsilon^{2} \left( {D_{1}^{2} + 2D_{0} D_{1} } \right),$$
(57b)

where \(D_{0} = \frac{\partial }{{\partial T_{0} }},\,\,\,D_{1} = \frac{\partial }{{\partial T_{1} }}\,\,\,{\text{and}}\,\,D_{0} D_{1} = \frac{{\partial^{2} }}{{\partial T_{0} \partial T}}\). Substituting Eqs. (55–57) into Eq. (39) and equating the coefficients of ε equal to zero yields the following differential equations:

$$\varepsilon^{0} :D_{0}^{2} w_{0} + p_{1} w_{0} = 0,$$
(58a)
$$\varepsilon^{1} :D_{0}^{2} w_{1} + p_{1} w_{1} = - 2D_{0} D_{1} w_{0} - 2CD_{0} w_{0} - \gamma w_{0}^{3} - \overline{q}\cos \left( {\omega_{0} T_{0} + \sigma T_{1} } \right).$$
(58b)

The solution of Eq. (58a) can be suggested as

$$w_{0} \left( {T_{0} ,T_{1} ,T_{2} , \ldots } \right) = A\left( {T_{1} } \right)\exp \left( {iT_{0} } \right) + \overline{A}\left( {T_{1} } \right)\exp \left( { - iT_{0} } \right).$$
(59)

The governing equations for A are gained by requiring \({w}_{1}\) to be periodic in \({T}_{0}\) and extracting secular terms which are coefficients of \({e}^{\pm i{\upomega }_{0}{T}_{0}};\) the solvability equation will be determined as

$$2i\omega_{0} \left( {A^{\prime} + CA} \right) + 3\gamma A^{2} \overline{A} - \frac{1}{2}\overline{q}\exp \left( { - i\sigma T_{1} } \right) = 0,$$
(60)

where

$$A = \frac{1}{2}\alpha \exp \left( {i\beta } \right).$$
(61)

Substituting Eq. (61) into Eq. (60) and separating real and imaginary parts, we have

$$\alpha^{\prime} = - C\alpha + \frac{1}{2}\frac{{\overline{q}}}{{\omega_{0} }}\sin \left( {\sigma T_{1} - \beta } \right),$$
(62a)
$$\alpha \beta^{\prime} = \frac{3}{8}\frac{\gamma }{{\omega_{0} }}\alpha^{3} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{{\overline{q}}}{{\omega_{0} }}\cos \left( {\sigma T_{1} - \beta } \right).$$
(62b)

Term \({T}_{1}\) can be eliminated by transforming Eqs. (62a–b) to an autonomous system considering:

$$\theta = \sigma T_{1} - \beta ,$$
(63)

and substituting Eq. (63) into Eqs. (62a–b) leads to

$$\alpha^{\prime} = - C\alpha + \frac{1}{2}\frac{{\overline{q}}}{{\omega_{0} }}\sin \theta ,$$
(64a)
$$\alpha \beta^{\prime} = \sigma \alpha - \frac{3}{8}\frac{\gamma }{{\omega_{0} }}\alpha^{3} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{{\overline{q}}}{{\omega_{0} }}\cos \theta .$$
(64b)

The point at \({a}^{^{\prime}}=0\) and \({\theta }^{^{\prime}}=0\) corresponds to a singular point of the system and illustrates the motion of the steady-state of the system. So, in the condition of steady state, we have

$$C\alpha = \frac{1}{2}\frac{{\overline{q}}}{{\omega_{0} }}\sin \theta ,$$
(65a)
$$\sigma \alpha - \frac{3}{8}\frac{\gamma }{{\omega_{0} }}\alpha^{3} = - \frac{1}{2}\frac{{\overline{q}}}{{\omega_{0} }}\cos \theta .$$
(65b)

Squaring and adding these equations, one may obtain the frequency response equation:

$$\left[ {\left( {\sigma - \frac{3}{8}\frac{\gamma }{{\omega_{0} }}\alpha^{2} } \right)^{2} + C^{2} } \right]\alpha^{2} = \frac{{\overline{q}^{2} }}{{4\omega_{0}^{2} }}.$$
(66)

Substituting Eqs. (65a–b) into Eq. (63) and substituting that result in Eq. (61) and substituting that result in Eq. (59) and Eq. (55), one may obtain the first approximation:

$$w = \alpha \cos \left( {\omega_{0} t + \varepsilon \sigma t - \theta } \right) + O\left( \varepsilon \right).$$
(67)

With this, the response of the amplitude (magnification factor) could be expressed as

$$M = \frac{\alpha }{{\left| {\overline{q}} \right|}} = \frac{1}{{2\omega_{0} \sqrt {\left( {\sigma - \frac{3}{8}\frac{\gamma }{{\omega_{0} }}\alpha^{2} } \right) + C^{2} } }},$$
(68a)
$$\frac{dM}{{d\Omega }} = 0, \, \frac{{d^{2} M}}{{d\Omega^{2} }} < 0.$$
(68b)

The maximum value of the magnification factor could be found from differentiating Eq. (68a) with respect to \(\Omega\):

$$\frac{1}{32}\alpha \left( {3\gamma \alpha^{2} - 8\Omega + 8\omega_{0} } \right)\left( {3\alpha \gamma \frac{d\alpha }{{d\Omega }} - 4} \right) + \left( {C^{2} + \left( {\Omega - \omega_{0} - 3\gamma \alpha^{2} } \right)^{2} } \right)\frac{d\alpha }{{d\Omega }} = 0,$$
(69)

which can be solved for \(\frac{d\alpha }{d\Omega }\) as

$$\frac{d\alpha }{{d\Omega }} = \frac{{8a\left( {3\gamma \alpha^{2} - 8\Omega + 8\omega_{0} } \right)}}{{27\gamma^{2} \alpha^{4} - 96\left( {\Omega - \omega_{0} } \right)\gamma \alpha^{2} + 64\left( {C^{2} + \left( {\Omega - \omega_{0} } \right)^{2} } \right)}}.$$
(70)

This derivative vanishes (and so does \(\frac{dM}{d\Omega }\)) when

$$\left( {3\gamma \alpha^{2} - 8\Omega + 8\omega_{0} } \right) = 0 \Rightarrow \alpha_{p} = \sqrt {\frac{{8\left( {\Omega - \omega_{0} } \right)}}{3\gamma }} .$$
(71)

By considering \(\frac{d\Omega }{dM}=0\), the values of the critical points \({\Omega }_{1}\) and \({\Omega }_{2}\) can be obtained [139]. This condition can be found by following equation:

$$27\gamma^{2} \alpha^{4} - 96\left( {\Omega - \omega_{0} } \right)\gamma \alpha^{2} + 64\left( {C^{2} + \left( {\Omega - \omega_{0} } \right)^{2} } \right) = 0.$$
(72)

So

$$\Omega_{1,2} = \frac{1}{8}\left( {8\omega_{0} + 6\gamma \alpha^{2} - \sqrt {9\gamma^{2} \alpha^{4} - 64C^{2} } } \right).$$
(73)

4 Periodic solutions, poincare sections, and bifurcations

4.1 Periodic solutions

The steady-state forced vibrations of the current study are periodic solutions. We suggested that

$$\dot{x}=F\left(x,t\right),$$
(74)

where \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}^{n},t\in {\mathbb{R}}\), is said to have a periodic solution (orbit) X of least period P if this solution satisfies X(\({x}_{0}={t}_{0})\) =X(\({x}_{0}={t}_{0}+{P}_{0})\) for all initial conditions \({x=x}_{0}\) on this orbit at \({t=t}_{0}\). To transform the Duffing equation into this form, it is first to recast as a system of first-order equations as follows [139]:

$${\dot{w}}_{1}={w}_{2},$$
(75a)
$${\dot{w}}_{2}=-{w}_{1}-2\mu {w}_{2} -{P}_{3}{w}_{1}^{3}+F\mathrm{cos}\left({\omega }_{0}{T}_{0}+\sigma {T}_{1}\right).$$
(75b)

The following transformations, motivated by the method of variations of parameters

$${w}_{1}={x}_{1}\mathrm{cos}\Omega t+{x}_{2}\mathrm{sin}\Omega t,$$
(76a)
$${w}_{2}={\Omega (-x}_{1}\mathrm{sin}\Omega t+{x}_{2}\mathrm{cos}\Omega t).$$
(76b)

Finally, we have

$${\dot{x}}_{1}={\frac{1}{\Omega }(-\sigma w}_{1}-\mu {w}_{2}-{P}_{3}{w}_{1}^{3}+F\mathrm{cos}\Omega t)\mathrm{sin}\Omega t,$$
(77a)
$${\dot{x}}_{2}={\frac{1}{\Omega }(-\sigma{w}}_{1}-\mu {w}_{2}-{P}_{3}{w}_{1}^{3}+F\mathrm{cos}\Omega t)\mathrm{cos}\Omega t.$$
(77b)

4.2 Poincare section and poincare map

In this section, the second-order non-autonomous Eq. (39) can be converted to the autonomous system

$${\dot{w}}_{1}={w}_{2},$$
(78a)
$${\dot{w}}_{2}=-{w}_{1}-2\mu {w}_{2} -{P}_{3}{w}_{1}^{3}+Fcos\left({\omega }_{0}{T}_{0}+\sigma {T}_{1}\right),$$
(78b)
$$\dot{t}=1.$$
(78c)

Note that Duffing Eq. (78) is invariant under the transformation \({w}_{1}\rightarrow -{w}_{1},{w}_{2}\rightarrow -{w}_{2},t\rightarrow t-\frac{\pi }{\Omega }\). The state space of this system (the so-called extended state space) is the three-dimensional Euclidean space\({\mathbb{R}}\times {\mathbb{R}}\times {\mathbb{R}}={\mathbb{R}}^{3}\). Since the forcing is periodic with period T = \(\frac{2\pi }{\Omega }\), the solutions are invariant to a translation in time by T. This observation can be utilized to introduce an essential tool of nonlinear dynamics, the Poincare section. Starting at an initial time \({t=t}_{0}\), the points on a suitable surface (\(\sum ,\) the Poincare section) can be collected by stroboscopically monitoring the state variables at intervals of the period T can be recast in the following form:

$${\dot{w}}_{1}={w}_{2},$$
(79a)
$${\dot{w}}_{2}=-{w}_{1}-2\mu {w}_{2} -{P}_{3}{w}_{1}^{3}+Fcos\left({\omega }_{0}{T}_{0}+\sigma {T}_{1}\right),$$
(79b)
$$\dot{\theta }=\Omega ,$$
(79c)

where \(\theta =\frac{2\pi t}{T}\) (mod 2 \(\pi\)). Since the response at t = 0 and t = T can be considered to be identical, the state space of Eq. (79) is the cylinder \({\mathbb{R}}^{2}\times S\rightarrow\)S1. This topology results from the state space (\({w}_{1},\) \({w}_{2},t)\) with the points t = 0 and t = T ‘glued together’.

The normal vector n to this surface \(\sum ,\) is given by

$$n=(0 0 1{)}^{T}$$
(80)

and the positivity of the dot product.

$$\left(0 0 1\right).\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{{w}_{2}}{\begin{array}{c}-{w}_{1}-2\mu {w}_{2} -{P}_{3}{w}_{1}^{3}+F\mathrm{cos}\left({\omega }_{0}{T}_{0}+\sigma {T}_{1}\right)\\ \frac{2\pi }{T}\end{array}}\right)=\frac{2\pi }{T}.$$
(81)

4.3 Results

In the current study, MHC is a useful reinforcement that we used in this work. The properties of the reinforcement and pure epoxy are shown in Table 1 [140].

Table 1 Material properties of the multiscale hybrid nanocomposite annular Ebrahimi and Habibi [140]
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4.4 Validation study

Table 2 is presented for investigation of the validity in the present work by comparing our results with Ref. [141] for two geometrical parameters (a/b and h/b) in which they are shown in Fig. 1. Also, the validation is done for two boundary conditions (clamped–clamped and simply–simply). With respect to Table 2, we can claim that differences between our result and that in Ref. [141] is less than 2%.

Table 2 Comparison of the non-dimensional natural frequency of the annular plate for different axisymmetric vibration mode number, inner radios to outer radios ratio and thickness to outer radios ratio for clamp–clamp supported. (b/a = 0.1, \(\overline{\omega }_{n} = \omega_{n} b^{2} \sqrt {\frac{{\rho_{m} h}}{D}}\),\(D = \frac{{E_{m} h^{3} }}{{12\left( {1 - \nu^{2} } \right)}}\))
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4.5 Parametric study

Figure 2 represents and compares the variation of the associated mechanical properties (such as volume fraction of CNTs, elasticity modulus, mass density, Poisson’s ratio, shear modulus, and thermal expansion of the MHCD) of the annular plate for each FG distribution patterns across the thickness by considering equal MHCD particles weight fraction.

Fig. 2
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Through-the-thickness variation of mechanical properties \(\left( {{{\theta = }}\frac{{\pi }}{{4}},{{ W}}_{\text{CNT}} = 0.02,{{ V}}_{F} = 0.2} \right)\)

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Figure 3 provides a presentation about the impact of the different CNT distribution patterns and the increasing large deflection parameter (A*) on the nonlinear frequency response of the simply–simply MHCD. The common result is that for every FG pattern, there is a direct relation between A* parameter and nonlinear dynamic response of the MHCD. For better understanding, increasing the A* parameter causes to increase the nonlinear natural frequency of the FG annular structures, exponentially. The main point which is come up from Fig. 3 is that for each value of the A* parameter, the highest and lowest nonlinear frequency is for the FG annular plate with FG-A and FG-X patterns, respectively, and this issue is decreased in the higher value of the A* parameter. For more detail, the best FG pattern for serving the highest nonlinear dynamic response of an MHCD-reinforced annular plat is FG-A.

Fig. 3
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Effects of CNT pattern on the nonlinear non-dimensional natural frequency of the simply–simply MHCD with b/a = 4, h/b = 0.3, Ti = 273 [K], To = 300 [K], UTR, \({{\theta = }}\frac{{\pi }}{{4}}\), WCNT = 0.02, VF = 0.2, Kp = 10 [MN/m] and Kw = 100 [MN/m3] for large deflection values

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The effects of rising temperature patterns (uniform, power, sinusoidal) and A* parameter on the nonlinear non-dimensional natural frequency of the simply–simply supported MHCD-reinforced annular plate is presented in Fig. 4. According to this figure, for each value of the A* parameter, rising temperatures with sinusoidal and uniform patterns encounter us with an MHCD-reinforced annular plate which has the highest and lowest nonlinear natural frequency.

Fig. 4
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Effects of rising temperature on the nonlinear non-dimensional natural frequency of the simply-simply MHCD with b/a = 4, h/b = 0.3, Ti = 273 [K], To = 300 [K], \({{\theta = \pi }}/4\), WCNT = 0.02, VF = 0.2, Kp = 10 [MN/m] and Kw = 100 [MN/m3] for large deflection values

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With consideration of the thermal environment, the influence of external harmonic force (\(\bar{F}\)) and different pattern of the multi-scale hybrid nanocomposites (FG-UD, FG-A, FG-V, and FG-X) on the time history on the planes (x,t), phase-plane on the planes (x,\(\dot{x}\)), and Poincaré maps on the planes (\({x}_{1}\),\({x}_{2}\)) of the MHC-reinforced disk with clamped–clamped boundary conditions, h/a = 0.1, FG-A, Ti = 273 [K], T0 = 300 [K], STR, ϴ = π/4, WCNT = 0.02, VF = 0.2,\(\bar{q}=2\), \(\overline{C}\)=0.01, Kp = 10 [MN/m] and Kw = 100 [MN/m3] are presented in Figs. 5,6,7and8.

Fig. 5
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The influence of \(\bar{F}\) on the time history on the planes (x,t), phase-plane on the planes (x,\(\dot{x}\)), and Poincaré maps on the planes (\({\mathrm{x}}_{1}\),\({x}_{2}\)) of the FG-UD pattern of the multi-scale hybrid nano-composite-reinforced disk with clamped–clamped boundary conditions

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Fig. 6
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the influence of \(\bar{F}\) on the time history on the planes (x,t), phase-plane on the planes (x,\(\dot{x}\)), and Poincaré maps on the planes (\({x}_{1}\),\({x}_{2}\)) of the FG-A pattern of the multi-scale hybrid nano-composite-reinforced disk with clamped–clamped boundary conditions

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Fig. 7
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the influence of \(\bar{F}\) on the time history on the planes (x,t), phase-plane on the planes (x,\(\dot{x}\)), and Poincaré maps on the planes (\({x}_{1}\),\({x}_{2}\)) of the FG-X pattern of the multi-scale hybrid nano-composite-reinforced disk with clamped–clamped boundary conditions

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Fig. 8
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the influence of \(\bar{F}\) on the time history on the planes (x,t), phase-plane on the planes (x,\(\dot{x}\)), and Poincaré maps on the planes (\({x}_{1}\),\({x}_{2}\)) of the FG-V pattern of the multi-scale hybrid nano-composite-reinforced disk with clamped–clamped boundary conditions

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According to Figs. 5,6,7and8, for all FG patterns, it could be seen that by increasing the value of the \(\bar{F}\) parameter, the motion and dynamic responses of the MHC-reinforced disk is changed from harmonic to the chaotic with respect to the time history, phase-plane, and Poincaré maps. By having a comparison between the above figures, it is clear that for all FG pattern, when \(\bar{F}=1,\) the motion behavior of the system is harmonic. For better understanding, in the lower value of the external harmonic force, different FG patterns do not have any effects on the motion response of the structure. But, for the higher value of external harmonic force and all FG patterns, the chaos motion could be seen and for the FG-X pattern, the chaosity is more significant than other patterns of the FG.

4.6 Conclusion

This was the fundamental research on the nonlinear sub- and supercritical complex dynamics of a multi-hybrid nanocomposite-reinforced disk in the thermal environment and subject to a harmonic external load. The displacement–strain of nonlinear vibration of the multi-scale laminated disk via third-order shear deformation (TSDT) theory and using von Karman nonlinear shell theory was obtained. Hamilton’s principle was employed to establish the nonlinear governing equations of motion, which was finally solved by the GDQM and PA. To examine the validity of the approach applied in this study, the numerical results were compared with those published in the available literature and a good agreement was observed between them. The numerical results revealed that

  • As a practical designing tip, it was recommended to choose plates with lower thickness relative to the outer radius to achieve better vibration performance.

  • In the lower value of the external harmonic force, different FG patterns did not have any effects on the motion response of the structure. But, for higher value of external harmonic force and all FG patterns the chaos motion could be seen, and for FG-X pattern, the chaosity was more significate than other patterns of the FG.

  • For each value of the A* parameter, rising temperatures with sinusoidal and uniform patterns encounter us with an MHCD-reinforced annular plate which had the highest and lowest nonlinear natural frequency.