Composite/nanocomposite structures have been commonly utilized in a variety of
applications. The ability to tailor composite materials to attain superior performance in …

Several additive manufacturing processes are capable of fabricating three-dimensional
parts with complex distribution of material composition to achieve desired local properties …

In the current paper, an attempt is made to analyze the moderately large oscillations of a
geometrically nonlinear functionally graded pipe conveying hot fluid subjected to a harmonic …

A Timoshenko functionally graded (TFG) imperfect microscale beam is considered and the
coupled viscoelastic mechanics is analysed in a nonlinear regime. Based on the …

In the design of functionally graded materials, bi-directional design offers greater design
freedom than the typical single-direction approach. This paper studies the shape and size …

This article firstly presents a novel numerical methodology to concurrently optimize material
distribution (size) and thickness variation (shape) of multidirectional functionally graded …

This study aims to investigate the large amplitude nonlinear vibration of variable thickness
arches with different cross-sectional shapes under different boundary conditions. The …

Nonuniform microbeams made of functionally graded materials (FGMs) have been studied
extensively in literature to predict their mechanical and thermal behavior, those …

This article presents a study of multiobjective shape optimization of nonuniform microbeams
made of functionally graded materials (FGMs). The goal is to discover the optimal shape …

A high order shear deformation theory is used to develop a discrete model for the structural
and sensitivity analyses allowing for the material distribution and sizing optimization of …