Nonlinear bending analysis of FGM rectangular plates with various supported boundaries resting on two-parameter elastic foundations

摘要

In this paper, model of the FGM plates resting on two-parameter elastic foundations is put forward by using on physical neutral surface and high-order shear deformation theory. Material properties are assumed to be temperature dependent and vary along the thickness, while Poisson's ratio depends weakly on temperature change and position and is assumed to be a constant. It is worth noting that physical neutral surface will be changed with temperature. The character of physical neutral surface higher-order shear deformation plate theory is that the displacements have special forms, stretching-bending couplings are eliminated in constitutive equations, and governing equations have the simple and similar forms as homogeneous isotropic plates. The validity of physical neutral surface higher-order shear deformation plate theory can be confirmed by comparing with related researchers' results. Nonlinear bending approximate solutions of FGM rectangular plates with six cases of boundary conditions are given out using Ritz method, and influences played by different supported boundaries, foundation stiffnesses, thermal environmental conditions, and volume fraction index are discussed in detail.