Analysis of functionally graded material plates using triangular elements with cell-based smoothed discrete shear gap method

Natarajan, S., Ferreira, A. J. M., Bordas, Stephane Pierre Alain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-7002, Carrera, E., Cinefra, M. and Zenkour, A. M. 2014. Analysis of functionally graded material plates using triangular elements with cell-based smoothed discrete shear gap method. Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2014 , -.

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Abstract

A cell-based smoothed finite element method with discrete shear gap technique is employed to study the static bending, free vibration, and mechanical and thermal buckling behaviour of functionally graded material (FGM) plates. The plate kinematics is based on the first-order shear deformation theory and the shear locking is suppressed by the discrete shear gap method. The shear correction factors are evaluated by employing the energy equivalence principle. The material property is assumed to be temperature dependent and graded only in the thickness direction. The effective properties are computed by using the Mori-Tanaka homogenization method. The accuracy of the present formulation is validated against available solutions. A systematic parametric study is carried out to examine the influence of the gradient index, the plate aspect ratio, skewness of the plate, and the boundary conditions on the global response of the FGM plates. The effect of a centrally located circular cutout on the global response is also studied.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Publisher:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ISSN:	1024-123X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 July 2016
Last Modified:	18 May 2023 16:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/92599

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