Modeling of shear wave propagation in piezo-viscoelastic microbeam over quadratic heterogeneous viscoelastic plate with sliding contact

Abstract This study analyzes the phase and attenuation dynamic behavior of piezo-viscoelastic microbeam overlying quadratic heterogeneous viscoelastic plate under sliding contact. Using the Kelvin–Voigt model, the material properties of the system are assumed to be viscoelastic. Maxwell’s relations are used to incorporate the electric potential function. The solutions for both media are derived separately by solving the second-order hyperbolic differential equation using the method of separation of variables and expansions of Bessel functions. The system of linear homogeneous equations is obtained by applying admissible boundary conditions to determine fundamental physical quantities. The key contribution of the current work is demonstrating the influence of dissipation factors, sliding contact, micro-length, heterogeneity, and thickness ratio parameters on shear wave propagation. The micro-length effect is found to suppress the attenuation of shear waves through the analysis and discussion of the dispersion and attenuation curves.