Buckling and post-buckling analysis for magneto-elastic–plastic ferromagnetic beam-plates with unmovable simple supports

This paper presents an analysis of buckling/snapping, bending and post-buckling/snapping behaviors of magnetoelastic–plastic interaction and coupling for soft ferromagnetic beam-plates with geometrically nonlinear deformation and unmovable simple supports at the ends of the plates. Based on the expression of magnetic force from the variational principle of ferromagnetic plates, the theory of thin plates with the nonlinear deformation of van Karman’s type, and the Mises yield criterion and the increment theory for plastic deformation, here, we establish a numerical code to quantitatively simulate the behaviors of the nonlinearly multi-coupling problems by the finite element method. Along with that the phenomena of buckling, bending, and post-buckling/snapping, or the characteristic curve of deflection versus magnitude of applied magnetic fields are numerically displayed, the critical values of buckling/snapping and yield magnetic fields, and the expansibility of plastic region after the plates undergo plastic deformation with increasing of the applied magnetic fields, as well as the evolvement of deflection configuration of the plate are numerically obtained in a case study.