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 …

Applications of finite element modelling in failure analysis of laminated glass composites: A review

M Teotia, RK Soni - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2018 - Elsevier
The subject of the paper is modelling of complex damage behaviour of laminated glass,
which is a sandwiched polymer composite. Last 20 years have witnessed extensive growth …

Experimental and numerical investigation on fracture behavior of glass/carbon fiber hybrid composites using acoustic emission method and refined zigzag theory

IE Tabrizi, A Kefal, JSM Zanjani, C Akalin, M Yildiz - Composite structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, damage evolution in glass/carbon fiber hybrid composites with various stacking
sequences is investigated under pure bending and tensile loading conditions. Based on the …

The aeroelastic stability characteristics of a ring-stiffened conical three-layered sandwich shell with an FG auxetic honeycomb core utilizing zig-zag shell theory

M Abasi, K Arshadi, M Rafiei, H Afshari - Aerospace Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper is devoted to the supersonic flutter analysis of a ring-stiffened conical three-
layered sandwich shell consisting of an auxetic honeycomb (AH) core fabricated from …

Assessment of the refined zigzag theory for bending, vibration, and buckling of sandwich plates: a comparative study of different theories

L Iurlaro, M Gherlone, M Di Sciuva, A Tessler - Composite Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Refined Zigzag Theory (RZT) belongs to the zigzag class of approximations for
the analysis of laminated composite and sandwich structures. This paper presents the …

Higher order theories for the free vibration analysis of laminated anisotropic doubly-curved shells of arbitrary geometry with general boundary conditions

F Tornabene, M Viscoti, R Dimitri - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work investigates the modal response of doubly-curved shells characterized by
unsymmetric lamination schemes embedding anisotropic materials and externally …

Static response and buckling loads of multilayered composite beams using the refined zigzag theory and higher-order Haar wavelet method

M Sorrenti, M Di Sciuva, J Majak… - Mechanics of Composite …, 2021 - Springer
The paper presents a review of Haar wavelet methods and an application of the higher-
order Haar wavelet method to study the behavior of multilayered composite beams under …

Refined zigzag theory for homogeneous, laminated composite, and sandwich beams derived from Reissner's mixed variational principle

A Tessler - Meccanica, 2015 - Springer
A highly accurate and computationally attractive shear-deformation theory for
homogeneous, laminated composite, and sandwich laminates is developed for the linearly …

Refined Zigzag Theory for laminated composite and sandwich plates derived from Reissner's Mixed Variational Theorem

L Iurlaro, M Gherlone, M Di Sciuva, A Tessler - Composite Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
A mixed-field Refined Zigzag Theory (RZT (m)) for laminated plates is presented. The theory
is developed using Reissner's Mixed Variational Theorem (RMVT) and employs the …

Effect of porosity on the modal response of doubly-curved laminated shell structures made of functionally graded materials employing higher order theories

F Tornabene, M Viscoti, R Dimitri - Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
The manuscript investigates the modal response of laminated anisotropic doubly-curved
shell structures of variable thickness made of Functionally Graded Materials (FGM) …