Buckling analysis of functionally graded material (FGM) sandwich truncated conical shells reinforced by FGM stiffeners filled inside by elastic foundations

An analytical solution for buckling of an eccentrically stiffened sandwich truncated conical shell is investigated. The shell consists of two functionally graded material (FGM) coating layers and a core layer which are metal or ceramic subjected to an axial compressive load and an external uniform pressure. Shells are reinforced by stringers and rings, in which the material properties of shells and stiffeners are graded in the thickness direction following a general sigmoid law distribution. Two models of coated shell-stiffener arrangements are investigated. The change of the spacing between stringers in the meridional direction is taken into account. A couple set of three-variable-coefficient partial differential equations in terms of displacement components are solved by the Galerkin method. A closed-form expression for determining the buckling load is obtained. The numerical examples are presented and compared with previous works.     

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of moving bilayer plates resting on elastic foundations

The aim of this study is to investigate the dynamic response of axially moving two-layer laminated plates on the Winkler and Pasternak foundations. The upper and lower layers are formed from a bidirectional functionally graded(FG) layer and a graphene platelet(GPL) reinforced porous layer, respectively. Henceforth, the combined layers will be referred to as a two-dimensional(2D) FG/GPL plate. Two types of porosity and three graphene dispersion patterns, each of which is distributed through the plate thickness,are investigated. The mechanical properties of the closed-cell layers are used to define the variation of Poisson's ratio and the relationship between the porosity coefficients and the mass density. For the GPL reinforced layer, the effective Young's modulus is derived with the Halpin-Tsai micro-system model, and the rule of mixtures is used to calculate the effective mass density and Poisson's ratio. The material of the upper 2D-FG layer is graded in two directions, and its effective mechanical properties are also derived with the rule of mixtures. The dynamic governing equations are derived with a first-order shear deformation theory(FSDT) and the von Kármán nonlinear theory. A combination of the dynamic relaxation(DR) and Newmark's direct integration methods is used to solve the governing equations in both time and space. A parametric study is carried out to explore the effects of the porosity coefficients, porosity and GPL distributions, material gradients, damping ratios, boundary conditions, and elastic foundation stiffnesses on the plate response. It is shown that both the distributions of the porosity and graphene nanofillers significantly affect the dynamic behaviors of the plates. It is also shown that the reduction in the dynamic deflection of the bilayer composite plates is maximized when the porosity and GPL distributions are symmetric.     

Information Measures for Generalized Order Statistics and Their Concomitants under General Framework from Huang-Kotz FGM Bivariate Distribution

In this paper, we study the concomitants of dual generalized order statistics (and consequently generalized order statistics) when the parameters γ1,…,γn are assumed to be pairwise different from Huang–Kotz Farlie–Gumble–Morgenstern bivariate distribution. Some useful recurrence relations between single and product moments of concomitants are obtained. Moreover, Shannon’s entropy and the Fisher information number measures are derived. Finally, these measures are extensively studied for some well-known distributions such as exponential, Pareto and power distributions. The main motivation of the study of the concomitants of generalized order statistics (as an important practical kind to order the bivariate data) under this general framework is to enable researchers in different fields of statistics to use some of the important models contained in these generalized order statistics only under this general framework. These extended models are frequently used in the reliability theory, such as the progressive type-II censored order statistics.     

含孔隙变厚度FG圆板的湿热力学响应

功能梯度材料(functionally graded materials, FGM)是组份含量按特定方向连续变化的非均匀复合材料,可有效解决传统复合材料组份之间结合能力弱和不同组份性能难以协调等问题,达到诸如缓和应力集中和优化应力分布等效果,使整体材料在保持细观结构完整性的同时充分发挥各组份材料的性能优势.由于制备技术等原因或出于特殊功能的需要,微孔或孔隙是各类型FGM中的常见缺陷.从细观结构上看,多孔FGM中的孔隙包含了单一组份内的材料孔隙和组份微粒间的结构间隙,这些孔隙将对FGM的力学性能,尤其是在湿热环境下的力学行为产生影响.本文考虑FGM中的两类细观孔隙(材料孔隙和结构孔隙),提出了令各类孔隙依赖于各自组份变化,再线性叠加得到的整体孔隙计算式.考虑组份材料和孔隙填充物(液相水和水蒸气)性质的温度相关性,建立了湿热相关FGM材料模型.针对厚度沿径向变化的旋转圆板结构,应用该FGM材料模型,推导了圆板的非线性稳态湿热控制方程及考虑湿热弹性本构的位移控制方程,采用微分求积法(differential quadrature method,DQM),获得了圆板的湿热场、位移场和应力分布.在数值算例中,利用退化模型的解析解对本文的数值计算方法进行了验证,继而通过改变各关键参数,讨论了两类孔隙率、梯度指数和圆板厚度变化对含孔隙FGM变厚度旋转圆板湿热力学响应的影响规律.      

Elastic analyses of heterogeneous hollow cylinders

Two different kinds of heterogeneous elastic hollow cylinders are studied in the present paper. One is a multi-layered cylinder with different values in different layers for both elastic modulus and Poisson’s ratio. Another is an elastic hollow cylinder with continuously graded material properties. By introducing two recursive algorithms, the extrusion stresses between two neighbor layers in the multi-layered cylinder submitted to uniform pressures on the inner and outer surfaces can be simply determined. Then the exact solutions of the multi-layered structure can be found based on Lamé’s solution. For the hollow cylinder with continuously graded properties, the displacement method is used. Both Whittaker equation and hyper-geometric equation are derived and successfully solved, and then the exact solutions are found. The results obtained in the present paper are compared with the numerical solutions and good agreements are found. At the end of the present paper, some inherent properties of these two different kinds of heterogeneous elastic hollow cylinders are presented and discussed. The results obtained in the present paper are useful in the design and analysis for composites reinforced by unidirectional fiber layers.     

Elliptical crack normal to functionally graded interface of bonded solids

This paper presents an analysis of an elliptical crack that is perpendicular to a functionally graded interfacial zone between two fully bonded solids. The functionally graded interfacial zone is treated as a non-homogeneous solid layer with its elastic modulus varying in the thickness direction. A generalized Kelvin solution based boundary element method is employed for the calculation of the stress intensity factors associated with the three-dimensional crack problem. The elliptical crack surface is subject to either uniform normal traction or uniform shear traction. The stress intensity factors are examined by taking into account the effects of the non-homogeneity parameter and thickness of the functionally graded interfacial zone, as well as the crack distance to the zone. The SIF values are further incorporated into the S-criterion for prediction of crack growth. The paper presents the most possible direction and location of the elliptical crack growth under an inclined tensile (or compressive) load. The paper further presents results of the critical external loads that would cause the elliptical crack to grow at the most possible location and along the most possible direction. The paper also examines the effects of external load direction and material and geometrical parameters on the critical loads.     

Double-layered piezo-thermoelastic hollow cylinder under some coupled loadings

In the present paper, a long thick-walled piezo-thermoelastic hollow cylinder with double layers is studied. The effects of temperature on the performance of the cylinder are obtained. Based on the theory of elasticity, the exact solutions of the cylinder under some coupled loadings are found. In the present paper, differences of a piezoelectric parameter between the two layers is taken into account. For comparison, numerical results have been carried out for both double-layered and graded cylinders. At the end of the present paper some discussions are addressed.     

Reduction of thermal stresses by developing two-dimensional functionally graded materials

Modern aerospace shuttles and craft are subjected to super high temperatures, that have variation in two or three directions, which need to introduce new materials that can stand with such applications. Therefore, in the present work a two-dimensional functionally graded materials, 2D-FGM, are introduced to withstand super high temperatures and to give more reduction in thermal stresses. The suitable functions that can represent volume fractions of the introduced 2D-FGM are proposed. Then the rules of mixture of the 2D-FGM are derived based on the volume fractions of the 2D-FGM and the rules of mixture of the conventional FGM. The introduced volume fractions and rules of mixture for 2D-FGM were used to calculate the thermal stresses in 2D-FGM plate. Comparison between 2D-FGM and conventional FGM was carried out and showed that 2D-FGM has high capability to reduce thermal stresses than the conventional FGM.     

Stochastic thermoelastic problem of a functionally graded plate under random temperature load

This study attempts to derive the statistics of temperature and thermal stress in functionally graded material (FGM) plates exposed to random external temperatures. The thermomechanical properties of the FGM plates are assumed to vary arbitrarily only in the plate thickness direction. The external temperatures are expressed as random functions with respect to time. The transient temperature field in the FGM plate is determined by solving a nonhomogeneous heat conduction problem for a multilayered plate with linear nonhomogeneous thermal conductivity and different homogeneous heat capacity in each layer. The autocorrelations and power spectrum densities (PSDs) of temperature and thermal stress are derived analytically. These statistics for FGM plates composed of partially stabilised zirconia (PSZ) and austenitic stainless steel (SUS304) are computed under the condition that the fluctuation in the external temperature can be considered as white noise or a stationary Markov process.