Laminated composite and sandwich structures are lightweight structures that can be found
in many diverse applications especially civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering. The …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of the Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundation on the
natural frequencies of Carbon Nanotube (CNT)-reinforced laminated composite plates and …

The main aim of the paper is to present a new numerical method to solve the weak
formulation of the governing equations for the free vibrations of laminated composite shell …

In this paper insights are provided into the implementation and use of the Ritz method for
free vibration and buckling analysis of composite plates. Focus is given on the choice of the …

The aim of this work is to investigate and compare the accuracy and convergence behavior
of two different numerical approaches based on Differential Quadrature (DQ) and Integral …

The global buckling and wrinkling behavior of sandwich plates with anisotropic facesheets is
investigated by means of a linearized stability analysis. High-order plate models are …

The numerical analysis of laminated composite plates and shells resting on nonlinear elastic
foundation is the main topic of the paper. The generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) …

Abstract Variable Angle Tow (VAT) composites remove the constraint of having straight
fibers, typical of traditional composite structures. This dramatically increases the design …

This paper investigates the possibility of triggering ductile modes of failure in a high-
performance sandwich structure by employing a multi-core design with dispersed composite …

This work presents a class of plate finite elements (FEs) formulated with node-dependent
kinematics, which can be used to construct global-local models with high numerical …