In the present work, the non-linear post-buckling load-deflection behavior of tapered functionally graded material beam is studied for different in-plane thermal loadings. Two different thermal loadings are considered. The first one is due to the uniform temperature rise and the second one is due to the steady-state heat conduction across the beam thickness leading to non-uniform temperature rise. The governing equations are derived using the principle of minimum total potential energy employing Timoshenko beam theory. The solution is obtained by approximating the displacement fields following Ritz method. Geometric non-linearity for large post-buckling behavior is considered using von Kármán type non-linear strain-displacement relationship. Stainless steel/silicon nitride functionally graded material beam is considered with temperature-dependent material properties. The validation of the present work is successfully performed using finite element software ANSYS and using the available result in the literature. The post-buckling load-deflection behavior in non-dimensional plane is presented for different taperness parameters and also for different volume fraction indices. Normalized transverse deflection fields are presented showing the shift of the point of maximum deflection for various deflection levels. The results are new of its kind and establish benchmark for studying non-linear thermo-mechanical behavior of tapered functionally graded material beam.
Geometrically non-linear forced vibration analysis of higher-order shear-deformable functionally graded material beam under harmonic excitation and supported on three-parameter non-linear elastic foundation is presented. The beam is immovably clamped and is considered to be under static thermal loading due to uniform temperature rise. Reddy's third-order shear-deformable beam theory in conjunction with von Kármán geometric non-linearity is considered to derive the governing equations employing Hamilton's principle, and Ritz method is followed for approximating the displacement and rotation fields. A numerical algorithm based on iterative substitution method and Broyden's method is proposed to predict the stable regions of frequency-response behavior. The frequency-response curves are presented in normalized plane for variations of load-amplitude, elastic foundation parameters, temperature rise, gradation index and functionally graded material composition, and their effects are discussed in detail. It is found that the load-amplitude, elastic foundation parameters, thermal loading and some of the functionally graded material compositions significantly affect the frequency response; whereas, the effect of gradation index is found to be relatively small. A comparative frequency-response curve between Voigt model and Mori-Tanaka scheme of functionally graded material modeling is presented, and it shows negligible difference between these two models. The present problem under thermal environment is studied for the first time through this work, and the proposed model and the numerical algorithm provide a simplified approach to study the non-linear frequency-response behavior.
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