Postbuckling analysis of functionally graded plates subject to compressive and thermal loads Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Postbuckling analysis of functionally graded ceramic-metal plates under edge compression and temperature field conditions is presented using the element-free kp-Ritz method. The first-order shear deformation plate theory is employed to account for the transverse shear strains, and the von Krmn-type nonlinear strain-displacement relationship is adopted. The effective material properties of the functionally graded plates are assumed to vary through their thickness direction according to the power-law distribution of the volume fractions of the constituents. The displacement fields are approximated in terms of a set of mesh-free kernel particle functions. Bending stiffness is estimated using a stabilised conforming nodal integration approach, and, to eliminate the membrane and shear locking effects for thin plates, the shear and membrane terms are evaluated using a direct nodal integration technique. The solutions are obtained using the arc-length iterative algorithm in combination with the modified Newton-Raphson method. The effects of the volume fraction exponent, boundary conditions and temperature distribution on postbuckling behaviour are examined. 2010 Elsevier B.V.

published proceedings

  • COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

  • Lee, Y. Y., Zhao, X., & Reddy, J. N.

citation count

  • 109

complete list of authors

  • Lee, YY||Zhao, X||Reddy, JN

publication date

  • May 2010