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Minimizing Thermal Residual Stress in Ni/Al₂O₃ Functionally Graded Material Plate by Volume Fraction Optimization

Xing Wei^1,2, Wen Chen^1,3, Bin Chen¹

1 State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering & Center forNumerical Simulation Software in Engineering and Sciences, College of Mechanics and Materials, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210098, China
2 College of Civil Engineering and Architecture East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
3 Corresponding author, Tel.: +86 25 83786873; fax: +86 25 83736860. E-mail address: chen-wen@hhu.edu.cn