Abstract
ABSTRACTBuckling and post-buckling thermomechanical deformations of a functionally graded material (FGM) Timoshenko beam resting on a two-parameter non-linear elastic foundation and subjected to only a temperature rise have been numerically investigated with the shooting method. The material properties are assumed to vary only in the thickness direction according to a power law function. Through-the-thickness temperature distribution is determined by numerically solving the one-dimensional heat conduction equation. Geometric non-linearities in the strain-displacement relations and the non-linear traction-displacement relations at the interface between the beam and the foundation are considered. For clamped-clamped and immovable simply supported beams, critical values of the ratio of temperatures of the top and the bottom surfaces of the beam for transitions in buckling modes to occur are determined. Post-buckled equilibrium paths and configurations of the heated FGM beam are illustrated for different values of the elastic foundation stiffness parameters, exponent in the power law variation of material properties and the slenderness ratio. Results for the Timoshenko beam are compared with those of the corresponding homogeneous Euler–Bernoulli beam available in the literature.
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