Benchmark exact free vibration solutions of two-dimensional decagonal piezoelectric quasicrystal cylindrical shells

Abstract Quasicrystalline materials with piezoelectric effects show significant potential for advancing actuators, sensors and energy harvesters. In this paper, the free vibration characteristics of two-dimensional decagonal piezoelectric quasicrystal cylindrical shells (PQCSs) are investigated in the framework of symplectic mechanics system. By introducing an original vector and its dual variable vector as the fundamental unknowns, the governing equations are reduced into a set of low-order ordinary differential equations system, thus the free vibration analysis is transformed into an eigenvalue problem within the symplectic space. By using the symplectic mathematics, the exact solutions for free vibration of PQCSs are finally obtained and expanded as a series of symplectic eigensolutions. Finally, accurate natural frequency and analytical vibration mode shapes for arbitrary classical boundary conditions are obtained simultaneously. The accuracy of the obtained solutions is verified by comparing with existing results in open literature. In addition, the effects of geometrical parameters, temperature rise, external voltage and coupling fields on the natural frequency and vibration mode shapes are investigated in numerical examples. Results indicate that the phason field exhibits significant influences on the natural frequencies and cannot be neglected in free vibration analysis of PQCSs. Furthermore, all the results can be served as benchmarks for the development of new analytical and numerical approaches.