Abstract
The present article proposes a comprehensive buckling and vibration analysis of functionally graded (FG) polymer composite plates reinforced with graphene platelets (GPLs). The effective material properties of the FG-GPLRC plates are accurately computed by using various ad-hoc micromechanical models. Several graphene nanoplatelets distribution patterns, within the polymer matrix, are investigated. The governing differential equations (GDEs) are derived by using Hamilton’s principle combined with the method of the power series expansion of the displacement components and the Gauss theorem. They are, then, solved in an exact sense by using the Navier-type closed-form solution. Various case-studies are addressed to show the high level of accuracy of the proposed formulation. Moreover, the effect of length-to-thickness ratio, volume fraction, aspect ratio, variable kinematics as well as GPLs distribution pattern is discussed.
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