Abstract

The effect of temperature and porosities on the dynamic response of functionally graded beams carrying a moving load is investigated. Uniform and nonlinear temperature distributions in the beam thickness are considered. The material properties are assumed to be temperature dependent and they are graded in the thickness direction by a power-law distribution. A modified rule of mixture, taking the porosities into consideration, is adopted to evaluate the effective material properties. Based on Euler-Bernoulli beam theory, equations of motion are derived and they are solved by a finite element formulation in combination with the Newmark method. Numerical results show that the dynamic amplification factor increases by the increase of the temperature rise and the porosity volume fraction. The increase of the dynamic amplification factor by the temperature rise is more significant by the uniform temperature rise and for the beam associated with a higher grading index.