Thermo-elastic Analysis of the Rotating Functionally Graded Truncated Conical shells Using Differential Quadrature Method

Functionally graded materials (FGMs) are inhomogeneous materials with continues variation of the constituents, usually metal and ceramic, in a given direction that are commonly useful in thermal environment (Malekzadeh and Safaeian, 2013, 2016). Rotating FGM conical shells are widely used as structural components in different engineering fields such as aeronautics, nuclear engineering, etc. Therefore, exact thermo-elastic analysis of these structures is crucial. In the present study, thermo-elasticanalysisofrotating FGMtruncatedconicalshells with temperature dependent material properties and subjected to convection heat transfer effects between the internal hot fluid and the shell inner surface is investigated based on the elasticity theory.