Stochastic FEM on nonlinear vibration of fluid-loaded double-walled carbon nanotubes subjected to a moving load based on nonlocal elasticity theory

This paper adopts stochastic FEM to study the statistical dynamic behaviors of nonlinear vibration of the fluid-conveying double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) under a moving load by considering the effects of the geometric nonlinearity and the nonlinearity of van der Waals (vdW) force. The Young’s modulus of elasticity of the DWCNTs is considered as stochastic with respect to the position to actually characterize the random material properties of the DWCNTs. Besides, the small scale effects of the nonlinear vibration of the DWCNTs are studied by using the theory of nonlocal elasticity. Based on the Hamilton’s principle, the nonlinear governing equations of the fluid-conveying double-walled carbon nanotubes under a moving load are formulated. The stochastic finite element method along with the perturbation technique is adopted to study the statistical dynamic response of the DWCNTs. Some statistical dynamic response of the DWCNTs such as the mean values and standard deviations of the non-dimensional dynamic deflections are computed and checked by the Monte Carlo Simulation, meanwhile the effects of the nonlocal parameter, aspect ratio and the flow velocity on the statistical dynamic response of the DWCNTs are investigated. It can be concluded that the nonlocal solutions of the dynamic deflections get larger with the increase of the nonlocal parameters due to the small scale effect, and as the flow velocity increases, the maxima non-dimensional dynamic deflections of the DWCNTs get larger.