“…The geometrically nonlinear vibration characteristics of thermally postbuckled isotropic/ anisotropic laminated plates were studied by Yang and Han (1983), Librescu et al (1996aLibrescu et al ( , 1996b, Librescu and Lin (1997), Lee (1997a, 1997b), Oh et al (2000), Ramachandra (2005a, 2005b), Fazzolari and Carrera (2013) and Samadpour et al (2015). Thermally postbuckled plates made of functionally graded (FG) metal/ceramic composite were studied by Park and Kim (2006), Xia and Shen (2008), and Taczala et al (2016), whereas thermally postbuckled plates made of FG carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (CNTRC) were investigated recently by Fan and Wang (2016), Shen and Wang, (2017), and Fazzolari (2018). A comprehensive survey of these studies can be found in Shen and Wang (2017).…”