Smart Structures and Systems
Volume 19, Number 3, 2017, pages 243-257
DOI: 10.12989/sss.2017.19.3.243
Semi-analytical vibration analysis of functionally graded size-dependent nanobeams with various boundary conditions
Farzad Ebrahimi and Erfan Salari
Abstract
In this paper, free vibration of functionally graded (FG) size-dependent nanobeams is studied within the framework of nonlocal Timoshenko beam model. It is assumed that material properties of the FG nanobeam, vary continuously through the thickness according to a power-law form. The small scale effect is taken into consideration based on nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen. The non-classical governing differential equations of motion are derived through Hamilton
Key Words
free vibration; functionally graded nanobeam; timoshenko beam theory; differential transformation method; nonlocal elasticity theory
Address
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran