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Buckling and post-buckling behaviors of a moderately thick closed ring made of a through-the-thickness functionally graded material (FGM) is investigated in this research. It is assumed that material properties of the ring are distributed across the thickness in terms of a power law model. The first order theory of shear deformable rings along with the von Kármán type of geometrical non-linearity...