Thermal Vibration, Buckling and Dynamic Stability of Functionally Graded Cylindrical Shells Embedded in an Elastic Medium

Abstract

This article is the result of an investigation on the effect of thermal load on vibration, buckling and dynamic stability of functionally graded cylindrical shells embedded in an elastic medium, based on the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) considering rotary inertia and the transverse shear strains. A heat conduction equation along the width of the shell is applied to determine the temperature distribution. Material properties are assumed to be graded with distribution along the width according to a power-law in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. Calculations, effects of material composition, thermal loading, static axial loading, medium stiffness and shell geometry parameters on vibration, buckling and the parametric resonance are described. The new features of thermal vibration, buckling and dynamic stability of functionally graded cylindrical shells embedded in an elastic medium and some meaningful and interesting results in this paper are helpful for the application and design of functionally graded structures under thermal and mechanical loads.