Functionally graded curved Timoshenko microbeams: A numerical study using IGA and modified couple stress theory

Studies on functionally graded (FG) curved microbeam structures are rather rare in the literature, and we thus present an effective computational approach on the basic combination of isogeometric analysis (IGA) and modified couple stress theory (MCST) for mechanical behavior analysis of such FG curved microbeams. The proposed method can cope with simultaneous complexities in material properties and geometries of the FG curved microbeams. The...