Effect of functionally graded material on frictionally excited thermoelastic instability

Abstract: Thermoelastic instability (TEI) is investigated focusing on the effect of functionally graded materials (FGM) where the FGM half plane slides against a homogeneous conducting or rigid non-conducting body at speed V. Results confirm analytically that there is maximum critical speeds occurring at a certain value of non-homogeneous parameter of FGM within a range of thermal conductivity, which was reported previously in the simulation model [Y.H. Jang, S.-H. Ahn, Frictionally-excited thermoelastic instability on functionally graded material, Wear 262 (2007) 1102–1112]. The effect of non-homogeneous parameters for FGM on thermoelastic instability shows that the non-homogeneous parameters of the elastic modulus and thermal expansion coefficient are strong influential factors. It is also found that when the non-homogeneous parameters of FGM range between two positive bounded values, unconditionally stable behavior is shown for a range of thermal conductivity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]