Three dimensional shear buckling of FG plates with various boundary conditions

Abstract

In this paper, the buckling of functionally graded plates under shear are considered for various boundary conditions. The buckling results obtained by using Ritz method based on the three-dimensional linear elasticity theory and the higher order shear deformation theories. The material properties of the plate vary through the thickness direction according to a simple power law. The comparison results are presented and the variation of the critical shear buckling load and the critical shear buckling modes with the shear buckling characteristics like the material composition, the plate geometry parameters (side-side ratio, side-thickness ratio) are investigated. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.