Vibration of a Temperature-Dependent Thermally Pre/Postbuckled FGM Beam Over a Nonlinear Hardening Elastic Foundation

Small amplitude vibrations of a functionally graded material beam under in-plane thermal loading in the prebuckling and postbuckling regimes is studied in this paper. The material properties of the FGM media are considered as function of both position and temperature. A three parameters elastic foundation including the linear and nonlinear Winkler springs along with the Pasternak shear layer is in contact with beam in deformation, which acts in tension as well as in compression. The solution is sought in two regimes. The first one, a static phase with large amplitude response, and the second one, a dynamic regime near the static one with small amplitude. In both regimes, nonlinear governing equations are discretized using the generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method and solved iteratively via the Newton–Raphson method. It is concluded that depending on the type of boundary condition and loading type, free vibration of a beam under in-plane thermal loading may reach zero at a certain temperature which indicates the existence of bifurcation type of instability.