TY - JOUR N2 - Thermal buckling behavior of a functionally graded material (FGM) Timoshenko beam is studied based on the transformed-section method. The material and thermal properties of the FGM beam are assumed to vary across the beam thickness according to a power-law function, a sigmoid function and an exponential function. The results of buckling temperature for the FGM beams with respective temperature-dependent and temperature-independent properties under uniform and non-linear temperature rises are presented. Some results are compared with those in the published literature to verify the accuracy of the present work. The effects of the material distributions, temperature fields, temperature-dependent properties and slenderness ratios on the thermal buckling behaviors of FGM beams are discussed. It is believed that the present model provides engineers with a simple and effective method to study the effects of various parameters of the FGM beam on its thermal buckling behavior. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/114742/PDF/AME_2019_131354.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/114742 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 415 DO - 10.24425/ame.2019.131354 KW - thermal buckling KW - functionally graded material KW - transformed-section method KW - temperature-dependent properties A1 - Chen, Wei-Ren A1 - Chen, Chun-Sheng A1 - Chang, Heng PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Machine Building VL - vol. 66 DA - 06.12.2019 T1 - Thermal buckling of temperature-dependent functionally graded Timoshenko beams SP - 393 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/114742 T2 - Archive of Mechanical Engineering ER -