Seminumerical solution to bending of sector plates and curved slabs of variable stiffness

Geometrically non-linear bending analysis of thick two-directional functionally graded annular sector and rectangular plates with variable thickness resting on non-linear elastic foundation

“…It is concluded from Fig. 4 that predictions of the present method are in good agreement with those reported by Harik and Fang [102].…”

“…Although a rather large amount of work has been done on tapered beams [87][88][89] and variable thickness circular [9,10,[90][91][92][93][94] and rectangular [95][96][97] plates, but the literature on the variable thickness annular sector plates is scarce. Stability [98], vibration [99][100][101] and bending [102,103] analysis of annular sector plates M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 5 with variable thickness were investigated. According to the review of open literature, geometrically non-linear bending analysis of tapered thickness sectorial plates is not still available, which this void stimulated the authors to study the effect of thickness variation on non-linear bending of sectorial plates.…”