Semi-analytical solution for electro-thermo-mechanical non-stationary creep behaviour of rotating disk made of nonlinear piezoelectric polymer

ABSTRACTElectro-thermo-mechanical non-stationary creep response of a rotating disk made of nonlinear polymeric piezoelectric material has been investigated. The viscoelastic properties of the material are time, stress and temperature dependent which vary along radius. The long-term creep constitutive equation is the Burgers viscoelastic model. A non-homogeneous differential equation with variable coefficients is derived using stress-displacement relations, equilibrium equation, charge equation of electrostatics and the Maxwell equation. Time-dependent creep strains are involved in the non-homogeneous term of the differential equation. A semi-analytical solution has been developed to obtain displacement, stresses, strains and electric potential in terms of creep strains. Then, Prandtl–Reuss relations and the creep constitutive model are employed in a novel numerical procedure based on the Mendelson method to obtain history of displacement, stresses, electric potential and strains. It has been concluded that the displacement is increasing with time while effective stresses are decreasing. The results are validated by finite element methods modelling using ABAQUS software. A very good agreements between the results can be observed.