Size-dependent thermoelastic damping analysis of functionally graded polymer micro plate resonators reinforced with graphene nanoplatelets based on three-phase-lag heat conduction model

Nanocomposite materials, such as graphene nanoplatelets (GPLs), have been fabricated into high-efficient resonators due to the excellent thermo-mechanical properties. In addition, thermoelastic damping (TED), as a dominant intrinsic dissipation mechanisms, is a major challenge in optimizing high-performance micro-/nano-resonators. Nevertheless, the classical TED models fail on the micro-/nano-scale due to not considering the influences of the size-dependent effect and the thermal lagging effect. To fill these gaps, the present work aims to investigate TED analysis of functionally graded (FG) polymer microplate resonators reinforced with GPLs based on the modified couple stress theory (MCST) and the three-phase-lag (TPL) heat conduction model. Four patterns of GPL distribution including the UD, FG-O, FG-X, and FG-A pattern distributions are taken into account, and the effective mechanical properties of the plate-type nanocomposite are evaluated based on the Halpin-Tsai model. The energy equation and the transverse motion equation in the Kirchhoff microplate model are formulated, and then, the analytical solution of TED is solved by complex frequency method. The influences of the various parameters involving the material length-scale parameter, the phase-lag parameters, and the total weight fraction of GPLs on the TED are discussed in detail. The obtained results show that the effects of the modified parameter on the TED are pronounced. This paper provides a theoretical approach to estimate TED in the design of high-performance micro-resonators.