BENDING STRESS ANALYSIS OF AXIALLY LAYERED FUNCTIONALLY GRADED BEAMS

In this study, the bending stress analysis of axially layered functionally graded beams subjected to their ownweight were evaluated under clamped-free (C-F) boundary condition. The beams have four layers and each layerconsist of different aluminium (Al)/monotungsten carbide (WC) systems based on increasing of the 6% WC. Thelayer positions in the beams were performed based on Taguchi L16 (4*4) orthogonal array design. The layerswere considered as control factors and each layer has four levels. The analysis of signal-to-noise (S/N) ratioswere used to obtain the optimum layer levels. Analyses were performed using finite element software ANSYS.In addition, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to determine the important levels and percentcontributions of the layers on the responses. The numerical results show that the increasing of the layer levelsincreases the bending stress and percent contributions of Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 on the bendingstress were obtained as 1.12%, 11.83%, 29.54% and 57.48%, respectively.