“…Linear buckling of FGM plates under mechanical and thermal loads has been studied in works [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] using analytical and numerical methods. Eslami and his coworkers [4][5][6][7][8] used analytical solutions and adjacent equilibrium criterion basing on classical and higher order shear deformation theories to obtain closed-form results of critical mechanical and thermal loads. By a similar approach, Lanhe [9] considered thermal linear buckling of moderately thick FGM plates with simply supported boundary edges.…”