Analysis of Functionally Graded Material Plates Using Triangular Elements with Cell-Based Smoothed Discrete Shear Gap Method

Table 8

Convergence of the critical buckling temperature for a simply supported FGM skew plate with 𝑎/ℎ= 10 and 𝑎/𝑏= 1. Nonlinear temperature rise through the thickness of the plate is assumed.

Mesh	Gradient index, 𝑛
	0	1	5	10
8×8	3383.40	2054.61	1539.24	1496.36
16×16	3286.90	1995.07	1495.25	1453.99
32×32	3263.91	1980.96	1484.76	1443.86
40×40	3261.17	1979.30	1483.51	1442.60
[9]	3257.47	1977.01	1481.83	1441.02