“…Most of these researches on FGMs have been restricted to heat conduction analyses, thermal stress analyses, thermal buckling analyses, thermal vibration, and optimization problem. Various numerical techniques, such as the finite difference method (FDM) [2,3], finite element method (FEM) [4][5][6][7], boundary element method (BEM) [8], or more recently developed meshless methods [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], have been developed for analyzing thermal related problems and other problems. Because of the complexity of the relevant governing equation, analytical solutions are usually difficult to obtain for those arbitrary geometry and complex boundary conditions, and the exact solutions are usually obtained based on classical plate theory, first-order shear deformation theory, high-order shear deformation theory, and so on [24,25].…”