Free Vibration and Buckling Analysis of FG-CNT Plates

This work deals with free vibration and buckling analysis of Functionally Graded single walled Carbon nanotube reinforced composite plate. The material properties were computed by the extended rule of mixtures. The non-dimensional frequency parameter was found by generating eigenvalues and eigenvectors solved by using ABAQUS. The subspace method was used for generating Eigenvalues of buckling for the plate. This work was intended to study the effects of varying temperature, volume fractions of CNT and CNT grading on non-dimensional natural frequencies and buckling parameters. The results of this study were validated from the results available in literature. It was found that the CNT volume fraction and CNT grading type has significant effect on non-dimensional frequency parameters. Similarly, ample effect of these parameters were observed for buckling of plate.