Influence of neutral surface position on the nonlinear stability behavior of functionally graded plates

Computational Mechanics - Tập 43 - Trang 341-350 - 2008
T. Prakash1, M. K. Singha1, M. Ganapathi2
1Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
2Formerly Professor, Institute of Armament Technology, Girinagar, Pune, India

Tóm tắt

Nonlinear behavior of functionally graded material (FGM) skew plates under in-plane load is investigated here using a shear deformable finite element method. The material is graded in the thickness direction and a simple power law based on the rule of mixture is used to estimate the effective material properties. The neutral surface position for such FGM plates is determined and the first order shear deformation theory based on exact neutral surface position is employed here. The present model is compared with the conventional mid-surface based formulation, which uses extension-bending coupling matrix to include the noncoincidence of neutral surface with the geometric mid-surface for unsymmetric plates. The nonlinear governing equations are solved through Newton–Raphson technique. The nonlinear behavior of FGM skew plates under compressive and tensile in-plane load are examined considering different system parameters such as constituent gradient index, boundary condition, thickness-to-span ratio and skew angle.

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