ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the bending behavior of flat, noncorrugated and corrugated spatially/functionally graded composite panel under uniform load. The material properties are graded through Voigt’s model via power-law formulation. First-order shear-deformation theory with six degrees-of-freedom is employed to define the displacement field, and final governing equations are obtained using variational principle. A customized computer code is developed for the proposed corrugated model to compute the deflection responses. To showcase the correctness, the results are compared with and validated against the available published result, which indicates that the deflection responses are reduced significantly for corrugated panels. In the later part, the effect of power-law index and various geometrical parameters (aspect ratio, side-to-thickness ratio, wave height, number of waves) on the deflection responses under various support conditions are discussed.
