Comparison of Post-Buckling Behaviors of a S-S FGM Beam under Conservative and Non-Conservative Distributed Forces
Based on the large deformation theory and considering the axial extension of the beam, the governing equations of post-buckling of a simply supported elastic FGM beam subjected to conservative and non-conservative distributed forces were established. In the analysis, it was assumed that the material properties of the beam vary continuously as a power function of the thickness coordinate. By using shooting method, the nonlinear boundary-value problem was solved numerically and the equilibrium paths as well as the post- buckling configurations of the deformed beam were presented. A comparison between the results of conservative system and that of non-conservative systems were given. The results shows that the features of the equilibrium paths of the the functionally graded beam under non-conservative are evidently different from those to a conservative one.