In this study, we consider the frictional sliding contact problem between a functionally graded magnetoelectroelastic (MEE) layer resting on a perfectly insulated rigid half plane and a perfectly conducting rigid flat punch with frictional heat generation. The punch is subjected to magnetoelectromechanical loads. The graded layer is modeled as a nonhomogeneous medium with a transversely isotropic stress–strain law and an exponential variation of the magnetoelectrothermoelastic properties along the thickness direction. Neglecting inertia effects and assuming a constant friction coefficient, the solution is obtained within the framework of steady-state plane magnetoelectrothermoelasticity under plane strain conditions. The heat equation is first solved using Fourier transform to yield the temperature field in the layer which is then substituted in the MEE governing equations. These equations are solved analytically using the same transform leading to three coupled Cauchy-type singular integral equations in which the main unknowns are the normal contact stress, the electric displacement, and the magnetic induction. These equations are then solved numerically to obtain the distributions of the normal contact stress, electric displacement, and magnetic induction at the surface of the graded medium. The main objective of this paper is to study the effect of the nonhomogeneity parameter; the friction coefficient; and the elastic, electric, and magnetic coefficients on the surface contact pressure, electric displacement, and magnetic induction distributions for the case of flat punch profile.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a high-order finite element method (FEM) formulation of nonlocal nonlinear nonlocal graded Timoshenko based on the weak form quadrature element method (WQEM). This formulation offers the advantages and flexibility of the FEM without its limiting low-order accuracy. The nanobeam theory accounts for the von Kármán geometric nonlinearity in addition to Eringen’s nonlocal constitutive models. For the sake of generality, a nonlinear foundation is included in the formulation. The proposed formulation generates high-order derivative terms that cannot be accounted for using regular first- or second-order interpolation functions. Hamilton’s principle is used to derive the variational statement which is discretized using WQEM. The results of a WQEM free vibration study are assessed using data obtained from a similar problem solved by the differential quadrature method (DQM). The study shows that WQEM can offer the same accuracy as DQM with a reduced computational cost. Currently the literature describes a small number of high-order numerical forced vibration problems, the majority of which are limited to DQM. To obtain forced vibration solutions using WQEM, the authors propose two different methods to obtain frequency response curves. The obtained results indicate that the frequency response curves generated by either method closely match their DQM counterparts obtained from the literature, and this is despite the low mesh density used for the WQEM systems.