Bending, buckling and free vibration of laminated composite and sandwich beams: A critical review of literature

AS Sayyad, YM Ghugal - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
Laminated composite and sandwich structures are lightweight structures that can be found
in many diverse applications especially civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering. The …

Vibrations of straight and curved composite beams: A review

M Hajianmaleki, MS Qatu - Composite Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
Laminated composite straight and curved beams are frequently used in various engineering
applications. This work attempts to review most of the research done in recent years (1989 …

[HTML][HTML] Vibration analysis of multi-scale hybrid nanocomposite plates based on a Halpin-Tsai homogenization model

F Ebrahimi, A Dabbagh - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
An analytical answer to the natural vibration problem of a composite plate consisted of multi-
scale hybrid nanocomposites, is presented here for the first time. In this paper, the …

Recent developments on refined theories for beams with applications

E Carrera, A Pagani, M Petrolo… - Mechanical Engineering …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This paper is a review of the most influential approaches to developing beam models that
have been proposed over the last few decades. Essentially, primary attention has been paid …

Stochastic natural frequency analysis of damaged thin-walled laminated composite beams with uncertainty in micromechanical properties

S Naskar, T Mukhopadhyay, S Sriramula… - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a stochastic approach to study the natural frequencies of thin-walled
laminated composite beams with spatially varying matrix cracking damage in a multi-scale …

Free vibration analysis of rotating composite blades via Carrera Unified Formulation

E Carrera, M Filippi, E Zappino - Composite Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF) is used to perform free-vibrational analyses of
rotating structures. CUF is a hierarchical formulation which offers a procedure to obtain …

Laminated beam analysis by polynomial, trigonometric, exponential and zig-zag theories

E Carrera, M Filippi, E Zappino - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2013 - Elsevier
A number of refined beam theories are discussed in this paper. These theories were
obtained by expanding the unknown displacement variables over the beam section axes by …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of thick isotropic and cross-ply laminated plates by generalized differential quadrature method and a unified formulation

AJM Ferreira, E Carrera, M Cinefra, E Viola… - Composites Part B …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, the Carrera Unified Formulation and the generalized differential quadrature
technique are combined for predicting the static deformations and the free vibration behavior …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical and exact models for free vibration analysis of cylindrical and spherical shell panels

F Tornabene, S Brischetto, N Fantuzzi… - Composites part B …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present paper shows a comparison between classical two-dimensional (2D) and three-
dimensional (3D) finite elements (FEs), classical and refined 2D generalized differential …

A strong formulation finite element method (SFEM) based on RBF and GDQ techniques for the static and dynamic analyses of laminated plates of arbitrary shape

N Fantuzzi, F Tornabene, E Viola, AJM Ferreira - Meccanica, 2014 - Springer
This paper deals with the static and dynamic analyses of multi-layered plates with
discontinuities. The two-dimensional first-order shear deformation theory is used to derive …