Buckling of Coated Functionally Graded Spherical Nanoshells Rested on Orthotropic Elastic Medium

Gamal S. Abdelhaffez, Ahmed Amine Daikh, Hussein A. Saleem and Mohamed A. Eltaher ()
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Gamal S. Abdelhaffez: Mining Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah P.O. Box 80204, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Amine Daikh: Department of Technology, University Centre of Naama, Naama 45000, Algeria
Hussein A. Saleem: Mining Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah P.O. Box 80204, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed A. Eltaher: Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah P.O. Box 80204, Saudi Arabia

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-25

Abstract: Coated functionally graded materials (FGMs) are used in several industrial structures such as turbine blades, cutting tools, and aircraft engines. Given the need for analytical and numerical analysis of these complex structures, a mathematical model of tricoated FG structures is presented for the first time in this paper. The objective of this work was to analyze analytically the buckling problem of unidirectional (1D), bidirectional (2D), and tridirectional (3D) coated FG spherical nanoshells resting on an orthotropic elastic foundation subjected to biaxial loads. Based on the generalized field of displacement, a 2D higher-order shear deformation theory was proposed by reducing the number of displacement variables from five to four variables for specific geometry cases. The nonlocal strain gradient theory was employed to capture the size-dependent and microstructure effects. The equilibrium equations were performed by applying the principle of the virtual work, and the obtained differential equations were solved by applying the Galerkin technique to cover all possible boundary conditions. The proposed elastic foundation was defined based on three parameters: one spring constant and two shear parameters referring to the orthotropy directions. A detailed parametric analysis was carried out to highlight the impact of various schemes of coated FGMs, gradient material distribution, length scale parameter (nonlocal), material scale parameter (gradient), geometry of the nanoshell, and variation in the orthotropic elastic foundation on the critical buckling loads.

Keywords: coated functionally graded shell; biaxial loads; spherical nanoshells; four-variable HSDT; nonlocal strain gradient theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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