Elastic-plastic stresses, strains, and displacements have been obtained for a thin rotating annular disk with exponentially variable thickness and exponentially variable density with nonlinear strain hardening material by finite difference method using Von-Mises' yield criterion. Results have been computed numerically and depicted graphically. From the numerical results, it can be concluded that disk whose thickness decreases radially and density increases radially is on the safer side of design as compared to the disk with exponentially varying thickness and exponentially varying density as well as to flat disk.
Thermal elastic-plastic stresses and strains have been obtained for rotating annular disk by using finite difference method with Von-Mises' yield criterion and non-linear strain hardening measure. The compressibility of the disk is assumed to be varying in the radial direction. From the numerical results, we can conclude that thermal rotating disk made of functionally graded material whose thickness decreases exponentially and density increases exponentially with non-linear strain hardening measure (m = 0.2) is on the safe side of the design as compared to disk made of homogenous material. This is because of the reason that circumferential stress is less for functionally graded disk as compared to homogenous disk. Also, plastic strains are high for functionally graded disk as compared to homogenous disk. It means that disk made of functionally graded material reduces the possibility of fracture at the bore as compared to the disk made of homogeneous material which leads to the idea of stress saving.
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