Forces on a Circular Hole Located in Functionally Graded Material

The complex stress function method is used in this study to formulate the 2-dimensional problem for nonhomogeneous materials. The Young’s modulus E varies linearly with the coordinate x and the Poisson’s ratio of the material is assumed constant and. The stress components and the boundary conditions are expressed in terms of two complex stress functions in explicit forms. It is noted that the constant term in stress functions has an influence on the stress components, which is different from the homogeneous material case. Subsequently, the problem of a nonhomogeneous plane containing a circular hole subjected to a uniform internal pressure is studied.