In this paper, the double-lap bolted plate is used to simulate the fully unfolded state of solar
panels, and the method of vibration suppression by attaching constrained layer damping …

The flexural response of laminated composite and sandwich beams/plates under static
distributed loading, classical and non-classical boundary conditions (simply-supported …

Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are soft electroactive materials that are finding
increasing use as actuators in several engineering domains, where there is a need of large …

We further develop and improve a structural theory recently proposed by our group, with the
aim of determining the simplest kinematics which allows the accurate modelling of any plane …

We provide analytical solutions for the full stress field of straight sandwich beams with
identical skins subject to linear elastic flexure governed by zigzag warping, where all layers …

Abstract Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs) are laminate microstructures composed of
an ionic electroactive polymeric membrane plated between two metal electrodes, finding …

This paper proposes a quadrature element method based on Chebyshev polynomials for
the static analysis of the defective sandwich beam with general boundary conditions. Gauss …

On the basis of the general variational formulation of the problem of the deformation of two
bodies connected by a thin layer, a system of differential equations of equilibrium of the …

A number of mixed and displacement-based zig-zag theories are derived from the zig-zag
adaptive theory (ZZA). As a consequence of their different assumptions on displacement …

Mixed zig-zag plate theories are derived from a recently developed 3-D five dof zig-zag
“adaptive” theory ZZA (a priori fulfillment of interfacial stress constraints) under steadily …