Paper
Mechanical Stability of Moderately Thick Functionally Graded Plates
- Authors:
- Mokhtar Bouazza; Fodil Hammadi; Sara Seddiki; El Abbas. Adda-Bedia
- Abstract
- In this article, an analytical approach for mechanical stability analysis of moderately thick functionally graded rectangular plates is presented. The equilibrium and stability equations are derived according to the first order shear deformation theory. Using Navier's-type solution these equations are solved for the functionally graded rectangular plate with simply supported under different types of mechanical loading. The excellent accuracy of the present analytical solution is confirmed by making some comparisons of the present results with those available in the literature. Furthermore, the effects of power of functionally graded material, plate thickness, aspect ratio, loading types on the critical buckling load of the functionally graded rectangular plate are studied and discussed in details.
- Keywords
- Buckling; first order shear deformation theory; functionally graded materials; mechanical loads
- StartPage
- 60
- EndPage
- 65
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