An overview of layerwise theories for composite laminates and structures: Development, numerical implementation and application

KM Liew, ZZ Pan, LW Zhang - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, a vast number of theories for numerical modeling of laminated
composite plates and shells has been developed by various researchers and for diverse …

Layerwise theories of laminated composite structures and their applications: a review

D Li - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
It is very challenging to accurately analyze the displacement and stress fields in the
laminated composite structures due to the transverse anisotropy and higher transverse …

[HTML][HTML] Free vibration analysis of variable stiffness composite laminated beams and plates by novel hierarchical differential quadrature finite elements

Y Yan, B Liu, Y Xing, E Carrera, A Pagani - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work deals with the free vibration behavior of the variable stiffness composite
laminates (VSCLs) featured by spatially varying fibre orientation angles via novel quasi …

A novel Trefftz-based meshfree method for free vibration and buckling analysis of thin arbitrarily shaped laminated composite and isotropic plates

AR Motamedi, N Noormohammadi… - Computers & Mathematics …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel meshfree local method is developed in the context of Trefftz approaches to solve
eigenvalue problems related to buckling and free vibration of arbitrarily shaped thin plates …

Manufacturable insight into modelling and design considerations in fibre-steered composite laminates: State of the art and perspective

BS Aragh, EB Farahani, BX Xu, H Ghasemnejad… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of novel robot-assisted composite manufacturing techniques has enabled
steering of fibre paths in the plane of the lamina, leading to the emergence of the so-called …

A numerical investigation on the natural frequencies of FGM sandwich shells with variable thickness by the local generalized differential quadrature method

F Tornabene, N Fantuzzi, M Bacciocchi, E Viola… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The main aim of the present paper is to solve numerically the free vibration problem of
sandwich shell structures with variable thickness and made of Functionally Graded Materials …

Recent developments in manufacturing, mechanics, and design optimization of variable stiffness composites

D Punera, P Mukherjee - Journal of Reinforced Plastics and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The functional advantages of tailored stiffness, often seen in nature, are also utilized in
composite structures. Advancements in the multiaxis tow placement and automated fiber …

Vibration analysis of variable thickness plates and shells by the generalized differential quadrature method

M Bacciocchi, M Eisenberger, N Fantuzzi… - Composite …, 2016 - Elsevier
The main purpose of this work is to perform the free vibration analysis of several laminated
composite doubly-curved shells, singly-curved shells and plates, characterized by a …

Geometrically nonlinear dynamic analysis of variable stiffness composite laminated and sandwich shell panels

A Gupta, S Pradyumna - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The nonlinear free and forced vibration analyses of variable stiffness composite laminated
(VSCL) and sandwich shell panels having curvilinear fibres, not yet reported in literature, are …

[HTML][HTML] Higher-order theories for the free vibrations of doubly-curved laminated panels with curvilinear reinforcing fibers by means of a local version of the GDQ …

F Tornabene, N Fantuzzi, M Bacciocchi… - Composites Part B …, 2015 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to investigate the dynamic behavior of singly and doubly-curved
panels reinforced by curvilinear fibers. The Variable Angle Tow (VAT) technology allows the …