Computer Aided Design System for Functionally Graded Materials with Thermal Stress Relaxation ZHOU Zhi-guang,ZHANG Lian-meng,SHEN Qiang,YANG Zhong-min (State Key Lab of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China)The analysis model used for calculation of thermal stress in axisymmetric FGM is established based on the thermo-elastic-plastic mechanics with assumptions. Using FGM and Visual Basic 6.0 for Windows, FGMMARC is established based on FEA software MSC Marc 2001. The optimum distribution of thermal stress in FGM can be realized by any of the relative parameters with FGMMARC and thus the optimum parameters of FGM design are determined. An example was given in this paper.functionally graded materials(FGM); thermal stress; relaxaton; FEA