Thermal post-buckling analysis of graded sandwich curved structures under variable thermal loadings

In the present research, finite element solutions of thermal post-buckling load-bearing strength of functionally graded (FG) sandwich shell structures are reported by adopting a higher-order shear deformation type kinematics. For the numerical calculation, nine nodes are considered for each element. A specialized MATLAB code is developed incorporating the present mathematical model to evaluate the numerical buckling temperature. The...