Functionally gradient materials (FGM) are one of the most widely used materials in various applications because of their adaptability to different situations by changing the material constituents as per the requirement. Most structural components used in the field of engineering can be classified as beams, plates, or shells for analysis purposes. In the present study the power law, sigmoid and exponential distribution is considered for the volume fraction distributions of the functionally graded plates. The work includes parametric studies performed by varying volume fraction distributions and boundary conditions. Also static analysis of functionally gradient material plate is carried out by sigmoid law and verified with the published results. The convergence study of the results is optimized by changing the mesh size and layer size. Power law and exponential law are applied for the same material and set of conditions.

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A. Functional Composites B. Elastic Properties C. Finite Element Analysis (fea)