“…It can be seen from the available literature that the work on flutter characteristics of FGM plates with cracks, to the author's knowledge is not available in the literature. Earlier studies on flutter characteristics of cracked isotropic and composite panels employed finite element procedure [Chen and Lin, 1985, Pidaparti and Chang, 1998, Shiau, 1992, Strganac and Kim, 1996. Although these numerical studies give insight into understanding the flutter behaviour, the method requires the mesh to conform to the geometry.…”