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• FE solution of harmonic vibrations for VE layered plates with exponential complex-conjugate form and refined zig-zag theory. • Effective application of the continuation method to solve the discretised amplitude equation. • Numerous analyses of the influence of various plate and formulation parameters on the resonance behaviour of laminate plates. The paper is devoted to the numerical analysis of the harmonic vibrations of laminate plates with viscoelastic layers in the von Kàrmàn geometrically non-linear regime. The amplitude equation derived in the prequel paper Part 1 – theoretical background is discretized using the 8-noded bi-quadratic plate finite elements. The response curves are obtained using the continuation method to solve the discretised amplitude equation treated as the equation with the frequency of vibrations as a parameter. The proposed method of solution is verified by comparing the results with those from available literature. Furthermore, several numerical analyses are performed, including testing of FE mesh density, plate aspect ratio, various VE materials, support conditions and layers layout as well as the possibility of simplification of the complex-valued zig-zag function used in the description of plate kinematics. Several results of practical importance are found and discussed in the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Efficient solution procedure for non-linear eigen-value problem based on homotopy and quasi-Newton methods. • Numerical verification of the proposed formulation and testing of various solution variants. • Extensive analyses of results sensitivity to the model parameters. In this paper the numerical procedure to solve the non-linear eigen-value problem describing the free vibrations of the laminate plates with viscoelastic (VE) layers is presented. The derivation of that main equation based on the refined zig-zag theory and using fractional Zener material model to describe VE material is presented in the companion paper Lewandowski R, Litewka P. Wielentejczyk P. Free vibrations of laminate plates with viscoelastic layers using the refined zig-zag theory – Part 1. Theoretical background. The solution obtained using the continuation method provides the required dynamic characteristics of the plates – the frequency and the damping ratio. In the iterative part of each continuation step either the full Newton or the quasi-Newton iterative procedure are used. Several numerical examples are solved to verify accuracy, efficiency and versatility of the proposed formulation. Numerous parametric studies are carried out to determine the influence of various solution variants and combinations of material parameters onto the results describing the damping properties of laminate plates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]