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Mantari, J.L. and Guedes Soares, C. (2015), “A quasi-3D tangential shear deformation theory with four unknowns for functionally graded plates”, Acta Mechanica, Vol. 226, pp. 625-642

An unavailable quasi-3D trigonometric shear deformation theory for the bending analysis of functionally graded plates is presented. This theory considers the thickness stretching effect (î zz 0) by modeling the displacement field with just 4-unknowns and rich trigonometric shear strain shape functions. The Hamilton’s principle is used to derive the governing equations and boundary conditions. Results from this theory are compared with the CPT, FSDT, and other quasi-3D HSDTs. In conclusion, this theory is more accurate than the CPT and FSDT and behaves as well as quasi-3D HSDT having much less number of unknowns.

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