Modeling and analysis of functionally graded sandwich beams: a review

Abstract

Now a days, sandwich beams and plates made of functionally graded (FG) materials are widely used in many engineering industries. Therefore, several modeling techniques and solution methods have been proposed by many researchers for the accurate analysis of FG sandwich structures. This article focuses on the review of research on modeling and analysis of FG sandwich beams using elasticity theory, analytical methods and numerical methods based on classical and refined shear deformation theories. This article cites 250 references and includes the important suggestions for the future research in the area of analysis of FG sandwich beams.

Keywords:

• Functionally graded
• sandwich beams
• shear deformation
• elasticity solutions
• analytical solutions
• numerical solutions