الفهرس 
INTRODUCTIONOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 89 |  |  |
| | | from | 89 | | |
Abstract
Functionally-graded materials (FGM) have recently been widely used. Depending on the application for which the material to be used and the specific loading conditions to which the material will be subjected, different approaches can be followed to determine the material properties. The novelty of the present study lies in the fact that the literature survey is lacking the exponential higher order term analysis of cylindrical FGM. The study is focusing on analyzing the stresses produced in the cylinder as a result of the applied loads. The cylinder is subjected to a mechanical load in the form of an internal pressure and a thermal load in the form of a temperature variation through the cylinder wall thickness as a result of the difference in temperature of both internal surface and external surface. Furthermore, The procedure followed in presenting the solution within the thesis; first, a benchmark is implemented for a cylinder in which the material properties follow a power law function to verify the analysis procedure employed in present study, second, an analysis is carried out for a cylinder in which the material properties follow an exponential function and finally as an extra validation for the analysis, a finite element model is constructed and both the analytical and the finite element analysis results are compared and found a good agreement in results. Hence, the present study results are dependable for analyzing the stresses induced in a functionally graded cylinder for which the material properties follow an exponential function and subjected to thermal-mechanical loading.