Nguyen, Trung-Kien, Vo, Thuc and Thai, Huu-Tai (2014) Vibration and buckling analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates with improved transverse shear stiffness based on the first-order shear deformation theory. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 228 (12). pp. 2110-2131. ISSN 0954-4062
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Abstract
An improved transverse shear stiffness for vibration and buckling analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates based on the first-order shear deformation theory is proposed in this paper. The transverse shear stress obtained from the in-plane stress and equilibrium equation allows to analytically derive an improved transverse shear stiffness and associated shear correction factor of the functionally graded sandwich plate. Sandwich plates with functionally graded faces and both homogeneous hardcore and softcore are considered. The material property is assumed to be isotropic at each point and vary through the plate thickness according to a power-law distribution of the volume fraction of the constituents. Equations of motion and boundary conditions are derived from Hamilton’s principle. The Navier-type solutions are obtained for simply supported boundary conditions, and exact formulae are proposed and compared with the existing solutions to verify the validity of the developed model. Numerical results are obtained for simply supported functionally graded sandwich plates made of three sets of material combinations of metal and ceramic, Al/Al2O3, Al/SiC and Al/WC to investigate the effects of the power-law index, thickness ratio of layer, material contrast on the shear correction factors, natural frequencies and critical buckling loads as well as load–frequency curves.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published online before print. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Functionally graded sandwich plates, buckling, vibration, load–frequency curves |
| Subjects: | H200 Civil Engineering H300 Mechanical Engineering |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Thuc Vo |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2014 09:35 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2023 14:46 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/14947 |
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