In-plane and out-of-plane buckling of arches made of FGM

The mechanical buckling of curved beams made of functionally graded materials is studies in this paper. The equilibrium and stability equations of curved beams under mechanical loads are derived. Using proper approximate functions for the displacement components, the stability equations are employed to obtain the related eigenvalues associated with the buckling load of the curved beam. Closed-form solutions are obtained for mechanical buckling of curved beams with doubly symmetric cross section subjected to uniform distributed radial load and pure bending moment. The results are validated with the known data in the literature for beams with isotropic materials.

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