Stochastic isogeometric analysis of free vibration of functionally graded plates considering material randomness.

The paper is to develop stochastic isogeometric analysis for the free vibration of functionally graded plates with spatially varying random material properties. The isogeometric analysis method is employed in the new stochastic analysis scheme which is called Stochastic IsoGeometric Analysis (SIGA). The elastic modulus and mass density are modeled as homogeneous Gaussian random fields along the plane of structure. The governing equation of stochastic isogeometric analysis for free vibration of functionally graded plates is derived in conjunction with perturbation expansions to predict the first and second moments of eigenvalues. In order to verify proposed method, the brute force Monte Carlo simulation is employed. The mean, variance, and COV (Coefficient of Variation) predicted by SIGA and those predicted by Monte Carlo simulation show good agreement. The numerical examples demonstrate that the randomness of material properties affects significantly the structural responses of the functionally graded plates. The correlation between elastic modulus and mass density is also observed to have significant effect on the response COV of eigenvalue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]