Research Projects

FGM structures have recently become a prominent area of research interest, particularly in the aerospace industry. It is because the mechanical and thermal qualities are excellently combined, and the properties can be specifically tailored to meet the requirements of the structures. In service life, FG structures undergo mechanical/thermomechanical loads. Such structures deform due to high thermal stresses caused by thermal environment fluctuations. Therefore, developing a numerical model that can compute such responses is essential. This study, therefore, concentrated on forced vibration and buckling analysis of multi-directional FG (variable material grading) doubly-curved structures with porosity defects subjected to thermal conditions while including HSDT and Green-Lagrange geometrical nonlinearity. Objectives: 1. To perform forced vibration analysis of multi-directional porous functionally graded curved structures under ambient conditions 2. To estimate the buckling load of the multi-directional porous functionally graded curved structures under mechanical loading 3. To perform forced vibration analysis of multi-directional porous functionally graded curved structures under thermal environment 4. To estimate the buckling load of the multi-directional porous functionally graded curved structures under thermo-mechanical loading Experiments to be carried out: The forced vibration and buckling analysis of the graded shell panel will be performed under thermo-mechanical loading.