Abstract
This work concerns the critical buckling temperature of functionally graded rectangular thin plates; the properties of functionally graded material vary continuously in accordance with the power law of thickness z. Closed form solutions for the critical thermal parameter are obtained for the plate with the following boundary condition combinations: simply supported, clamped and guided edges, under uniform, linear and nonlinear temperature fields via the separation-of-variable method. Furthermore, a new method is proposed to determine the critical buckling temperature from the critical thermal parameter. The present results coincide well with those in the literature, verifying the correctness of the present method. The influences of the length–thickness ratio, length–width ratio, power law index and initial temperature on critical buckling temperature are investigated.
Highlights
Designable Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) are increasingly widely used in the aerospace, nuclear, and ship industries and other various industry departments, especially in thermal environments with ultra-high temperatures and a large temperature gradient
The results provided later demonstrate the effect of T0 for temperature-dependent FGM plates under all kinds of thermal environments
Two types of FGM thin plates are considered
Summary
Designable Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) are increasingly widely used in the aerospace, nuclear, and ship industries and other various industry departments, especially in thermal environments with ultra-high temperatures and a large temperature gradient. FGMs were proposed as thermal barrier materials by Japanese scientist Koizumi [1,2] to solve many problems in the new generation of aerospace airplane thermal protection systems. Since FGMs usually work in extremely high temperature environments, in order to ensure structural stability, the critical buckling temperature of FGM structures is very important in theory and application. Many researchers have studied the thermal buckling of FGM plates based on different theories in the past two decades. Javaheri and Eslami [3] developed closed form solutions for the thermal buckling of supported FGM thin plates based on the Classical thin Plate Theory (CPT). Shariat and Eslami [4]
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