Recent research advances on the dynamic analysis of composite shells: 2000–2009

MS Qatu, RW Sullivan, W Wang - Composite structures, 2010 - Elsevier
Laminated composite shells are frequently used in various engineering applications in the
aerospace, mechanical, marine, and automotive industries. This article follows a previous …

[HTML][HTML] Review of recent literature on static analyses of composite shells: 2000-2010

MS Qatu, E Asadi, W Wang - 2012 - scirp.org
Laminated composite shells are frequently used in various engineering applications
including aerospace, mechanical, marine, and automotive engineering. This article reviews …

Higher order theories for the vibration study of doubly-curved anisotropic shells with a variable thickness and isogeometric mapped geometry

F Tornabene, M Viscoti, R Dimitri, JN Reddy - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Anisotropic materials are widely used in many complex structures and panels, whose
modelling can represent a challenging issue for engineers, especially when variable …

Static and free vibration analysis of laminated composite and sandwich spherical shells using a generalized higher-order shell theory

AS Sayyad, YM Ghugal - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, higher-order closed-form solutions are obtained for static bending and free
vibration analysis of laminated composite and sandwich spherical shells using a …

Nonlinear forced vibration of smart multiscale sandwich composite doubly curved porous shell

M Karimiasl, F Ebrahimi, V Mahesh - Thin-Walled Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
This is the first research on the nonlinear vibration analysis of composite sandwich doubly
curved shell with a flexible core integrated with a piezoelectric layer. By using the higher …

Vibration and damping analysis of thick sandwich cylindrical shells with a viscoelastic core under arbitrary boundary conditions

C Yang, G Jin, Z Liu, X Wang, X Miao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2015 - Elsevier
An accurate solution approach based on the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) is
developed for the free vibration and damping analysis of thick sandwich cylindrical shells …

Free vibration analysis of homogeneous isotropic circular cylindrical shells based on a new three-dimensional refined higher-order theory

SMR Khalili, A Davar, KM Fard - International journal of Mechanical …, 2012 - Elsevier
Closed-form formulation of three-dimensional (3-D) refined higher-order shear deformation
theory (RHOST) for the free vibration analysis of simply supported–simply supported and …

Free vibration response of composite sandwich cylindrical shell with flexible core

O Rahmani, SMR Khalili, K Malekzadeh - Composite Structures, 2010 - Elsevier
This study deals with the free vibration analysis of composite sandwich cylindrical shell with
a flexible core using a higher order sandwich panel theory. The formulation uses the …

Vibration of laminated composites and sandwich shells based on higher order zigzag theory

A Kumar, A Chakrabarti, P Bhargava - Engineering Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
Free vibration response of laminated composite and sandwich shell is studied by using an
efficient 2D FE (finite element) model based on higher order zigzag theory (HOZT). This is …

Methods and guidelines for the choice of shell theories

M Petrolo, E Carrera - Acta Mechanica, 2020 - Springer
This paper provides an overview of the modeling approaches adopted over the years to
develop shell theories for composite structures. Furthermore, it presents a method to assess …