Mechanics of viscoelastic functionally graded microcantilevers

An elastically supported viscoelastic functionally graded (FG) microcantilever is considered and its nonlinear mechanics is analysed for the first time. Moreover, for the first time, energy transfer via internal resonances and motion complexity are analysed. A nonlinear spring model is incorporated as an elastic support which is representative of elasticity induced from neighbouring devices. Size effects are incorporated using the modified...