TY - JOUR
T1 - Stability of piezoelectric FGM rectangular plates subjected to non-uniformly distributed load, heat and voltage
AU - Chen, X. L.
AU - Zhao, Z. Y.
AU - Liew, K. M.
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - This paper employs the element free Galerkin (EFG) method to analyze buckling of piezoelectric functionally graded material (FGM) rectangular plates subjected to non-uniformly distributed loads, heat and voltage. A two-step solution procedure is implemented. In the first step, based on a two-dimensional (2D) plane stress problem, pre-buckling stresses of plates subjected to non-uniformly distributed loads are calculated. In the second step, based on the Mindlin plate assumption, buckling load and temperature parameters of the plates are obtained using the EFG method with penalty coefficients. Numerical examples are presented to validate the proposed numerical method. Some useful results for the FGM plates are presented. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - This paper employs the element free Galerkin (EFG) method to analyze buckling of piezoelectric functionally graded material (FGM) rectangular plates subjected to non-uniformly distributed loads, heat and voltage. A two-step solution procedure is implemented. In the first step, based on a two-dimensional (2D) plane stress problem, pre-buckling stresses of plates subjected to non-uniformly distributed loads are calculated. In the second step, based on the Mindlin plate assumption, buckling load and temperature parameters of the plates are obtained using the EFG method with penalty coefficients. Numerical examples are presented to validate the proposed numerical method. Some useful results for the FGM plates are presented. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Buckling analysis
KW - Element free Galerkin method
KW - Functionally graded plate
KW - Heat
KW - Non-uniformly distributed load
KW - Voltage
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U2 - 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2006.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2006.12.004
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0965-9978
VL - 39
SP - 121
EP - 131
JO - Advances in Engineering Software
JF - Advances in Engineering Software
IS - 2
ER -