Thermo-Mechanical Buckling Analysis of Functionally Graded Skew Laminated Plates with Initial Geometric Imperfections

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to investigate thermo-mechanical buckling response of skew functionally graded laminated plates (FGLP) with initial geometric imperfections. The formulation has been performed using Reddy’s higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT) with the [Formula: see text] continuous displacement field. A nine-noded isoparametric element has been employed to discretize the domain of the plate. Variational principle has been used to derive the governing differential equation of the problem. Several examples with various comparison and parametric studies have been shown to prove the efficiency and effectiveness of the present formulation. The numerical results have been highlighted with different system parameters and boundary conditions.