Elastic Mechanical Stress Analysis in a 2D-FGM Thick Finite Length Hollow Cylinder with Newly Developed Material Model

In this paper a new 2D-FGM material model based on Mori-Tanaka scheme and third-order transition function has been developed for a thick hollow cylinder of finite length. Elastic mechanical stress analysis is performed by utilizing the finite element method. The corresponding material, displacement and stress distributions are evaluated for different values of nr and nz. Moreover, the effects of different material property distributions on the effective stress with respect to the metallic phase volume fraction are investigated. It is demonstrated that the increase in nr and Vm leads to a significant reduction in the effective stress. Finally, it is shown that the ceramic phase rich cylinder wall has lower maximum effective stresses of which the lowest value of effective stress has been evaluated for nr = 20 and nz = 5. This minimum value is about half the maximum effective stress which has been evaluated for the non-FGM cylinder case (nr = nz =0.1).