Free vibration and damage identification of cracked functionally graded plates

This paper investigates the free vibration and crack identification of functionally graded material (FGM) plates with a through-width edge crack. The material properties of the FGM plates change continuously with the power law distribution along the plate thickness direction. The crack in an FGM plate is simulated as a massless rotational spring and the plate is separated into two sub-plates at the crack location connected by the line spring....