Flexoelectricity and surface effects on coupled electromechanical responses of graphene reinforced functionally graded nanocomposites: A unified size-dependent semi-analytical framework

Naskar, Susmita and Mukhopadhyay, Tanmoy , Kishor Shingare and Soumyadeep Mondal (2022) Flexoelectricity and surface effects on coupled electromechanical responses of graphene reinforced functionally graded nanocomposites: A unified size-dependent semi-analytical framework. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 169, [108757]. (doi:10.1016/j.ymssp.2021.108757).

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 December 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 24 January 2022

Published date: 15 April 2022

Additional Information: Funding Information: SN acknowledges the financial support through initiation grant from University of Southampton. KBS would like to thank IIT Bombay for the Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship (IPDF). TM would like to acknowledge the financial support from Science and Engineering Research Board (Grant no. SRG/2020/001398). Funding Information: SN acknowledges the financial support through initiation grant from University of Southampton. KBS would like to thank IIT Bombay for the Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship (IPDF). TM would like to acknowledge the financial support from Science and Engineering Research Board (Grant no. SRG/2020/001398). All relevant data have been included either in the manuscript or it will be made available upon reasonable requests. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd Copyright: Copyright 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords: Electromechanical responses, Extended Kantorovich method, Flexoelectricity and surface effect, Graphene reinforced functionally graded materials, Ritz method, Size-dependence in composite materials