Free vibration of functionally graded beams based on both classical and first-order shear deformation beam theories.pdfVIP

Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed., 35(5), 591–606 (2014) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-014-1815-6 and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 (English Edition) Free vibration of functionally graded beams based on both classical and first-order shear deformation beam theories∗ Shi-rong LI (), Ze-qing WAN (), Jing-hua ZHANG () (School of Civil Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, Jiangsu Province, R. R. China) Abstract The free vibration of functionally graded material (FGM) beams is studied based on both the classical and the first-order shear deformation beam theories. The equations of motion for the FGM beams are derived by considering the shear deforma- tion and the axial, transversal, rotational, and axial-rotational coupling inertia forces on the assumption that the material properties vary arbitrarily in the thickness direction. By using the numerical shooting method to solve the eigenvalue problem of the coupled ordinary differential equations with different boundary conditions, the natural frequen- cies of the FGM Timoshenko beams are obtained numerically. In a special case of the classical beam theory, a proportional transformation between the natural frequencies of the FGM and the reference homogenous beams is obtained by using the mathematical similarity between the mathematical formulations. This formula provides a simple and useful approach to evaluate the natural frequencies of the FGM beams wi