Soft materials like tissues, prosthetics, gels and rubber are usually modeled as incompressible hyperelastic. The use of these in soft robotics surgical implants necessitates analysis their finite deformations. We study here plane-strain flexural deformations functionally graded, isotropic Mooney-Rivlin rectangular beams into circular arcs by using a member Ericksen’s family universal solutions...

Abstract The present work aims to investigate the buckling performance of sandwich structure functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC). Through first-order shear deformation theory, an analytical model for FG-CNTRC was established. governing equation prediction obtained through energy method. There solution that can satisfy both boundary conditions. theoretical and met...

In the present investigation, free vibration of functionally graded material (FGM) skew plates under thermal environment is studied. Kinematics equations are based on the Reddy’s higher order shear deformation theory and a nine noded isoparametric Lagrangian element is adopted to mesh the plate geometry. The issue of C1 continuity requirement related to the assumed displacement field has been c...