Three-dimensional transient analysis of functionally graded material annular sector plate under various boundary conditions

A semi-analytical methodology is developed for the transient response of FGM annular sector plate with arbitrary circular boundary conditions. The state space method, differential quadrature method and the numerical inversion method of Laplace transform are integrated into this methodology. The FGM annular sector plate is simply supported at the radial edges. At the circular edges, four kinds of boundary conditions are considered in this paper:...