Foad Nazari1, Mohammad Hossein Abolbashari1,2, Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.105, No.4, pp. 271-299, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.105.271
Abstract Present study is concerned with three dimensional natural frequency analysis of functionally graded sandwich rectangular plates using Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).The plate consists of two homogeneous face sheets and a power-law FGM core. Natural frequencies of the plate are obtained by 3D MLPG method and are verified with available references. Convergence study of the first four natural frequencies for different node numbers is the next step. Also, effects of two parameters of “FG core to plate thickness ratio” and “volume fraction index” on natural frequencies of plate are investigated. More >