Meet the editor

Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi was born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1979. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2002. He received his MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialization in applied design from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2009. Since 2002, he has been working at the Smart Materials and Structures Lab Research Center of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of

Tehran, where he is a researcher of smart functionally graded materials and structures. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Imam Khomeini International University as an assistant professor in 2010. He is involved in several international journals as editor and reviewer. He serves on the editorial board of the SAGE Publication: "Journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering". He is the author of the following books: "Smart Functionally Graded Plates" and "Progress in Analysis of Functionally Graded Structures", Nova Science Publishers, NY. He has also served as the editor of the book "Nanocomposites - New Trends and Developments", IntechOpen Access Publisher. His research interests include smart materials and structures, nanostructures, vibration nanocomposites, and composite materials and structures, and he has published several research papers in these fields. His research in these areas has been presented at international conferences and appeared in academic journals such as "Composite Structures", "Composites Part B", "Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology", "Smart Materials and Structures", "European Journal of Mechanics", and "Archive of Applied Mechanics". Dr. Ebrahimi also has a strong collaboration with Iranian industries on gas and oil projects, as well as serving as an ad-hoc referee in several top academic journals.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 29**

**Chapter 3 51**

**Chapter 4 61** The Stochastic Finite Element in the Natural Frequency of Functionally Graded

**Chapter 5 79** Development of Functionally Gradient Cu-Sn-Ni Alloy Using GTA Heat Source

**Chapter 6 95** Axisymmetric Indentation Response of Functionally Graded Material Coating

Boundary Element Model for Nonlinear Fractional-Order Heat Transfer in Magneto- Thermoelastic FGA Structures Involving Three Temperatures

DC Conductivity of Activated Carbon Filled Epoxy Gradient Composites

Free Vibration of Axially Functionally Graded Beam *by Dongxing Cao, Bin Wang, Wenhua Hu and Yanhui Gao*

*by Mohamed Abdelsabour Fahmy*

*by Nguyen Van Thuan and Noh Hyuk Chun*

*by Cherian Paul and Ramasamy Sellamuthu*

*by Archana Nigrawal*

Material Beams

*by Tie-Jun Liu*
