Static and buckling characteristics of the porous ring reinforced by graphene nanofillers

Abstract The present work focuses on the static and buckling characteristics of the confined functionally graded porous (FGP) ring consolidated by graphene nanofillers (GNF). The ring is under a temperature rise field when a point load is applied on the crown position. The Halpin-Tsai micromechanics theory is used to evaluate the distribution of Young’s modulus, and the Gaussian random field theory is used to evaluate the distribution of the porosity and mass density, respectively. The influence of the thermal field on the buckling load is quantized by applying the energy function and nonlinear thin-walled shell theory. The analytical buckling load is examined numerically, and good agreement is obtained. Furthermore, the present analytical and numerical results are verified effectively by other closed-form predictions when the FGP-GNF ring reduces to a homogeneous ring. Finally, comprehensive parametric study is taken by analyzing the effect of parameters on the buckling load. These parameters include the temperature rise, porosity coefficient, weight fraction, geometric parameters of GNF, friction coefficient and Young’s modulus of the medium.