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 …

An insight on NURBS based isogeometric analysis, its current status and involvement in mechanical applications

V Gupta, A Jameel, SK Verma, S Anand… - Archives of Computational …, 2023 - Springer
The current communication is a state-of-the-art review of the recently developed
Isogeometric analysis and its various applications such as structural, thermal, fluid–structure …

The GDQ method for the free vibration analysis of arbitrarily shaped laminated composite shells using a NURBS-based isogeometric approach

F Tornabene, N Fantuzzi, M Bacciocchi - Composite Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
A numerical procedure based on the Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method is
presented to solve the strong form of the differential equations that govern the free vibration …

A new doubly-curved shell element for the free vibrations of arbitrarily shaped laminated structures based on Weak Formulation IsoGeometric Analysis

F Tornabene, N Fantuzzi, M Bacciocchi - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Bending, buckling and free vibration analyses of shallow-to-deep FG curved sandwich beams using a global–local refined shear deformation theory

M Lezgy-Nazargah, A Karamanli, TP Vo - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the bending, vibration, and buckling behaviour of functionally
graded (FG) curved sandwich beams using a global–local refined shear deformation theory …

Shape sensing of multilayered composite and sandwich beams based on Refined Zigzag Theory and inverse finite element method

F Zhao, H Bao, J Liu, K Li - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
An accurate and effective reconstruction method, which is commonly known as “shape
sensing”, is presented for real-time reconstructing the deformation field of multilayered …

A finite element model for static analysis of curved thin-walled beams based on the concept of equivalent layered composite cross section

M Lezgy-Nazargah - Mechanics of Advanced Materials and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, an accurate 1D finite element model with low degrees of freedom (DOFs) is
presented for the static extensional-shearing-bending analysis of curved thin-walled beams …

Refined shear deformation theories for laminated composite arches and beams with variable thickness: Natural frequency analysis

F Tornabene, N Fantuzzi, M Bacciocchi - Engineering Analysis with …, 2019 - Elsevier
A higher-order mathematical formulation with applications is presented in this paper for the
free vibration analysis of arches and beams made of composite materials. Higher-order …

Adaptive chaotic particle swarm algorithm for isogeometric multi-objective size optimization of FG plates

C Wang, T Yu, JL Curiel-Sosa, N Xie, TQ Bui - Structural and …, 2019 - Springer
An effective multi-objective optimization methodology that combines the isogeometric
analysis (IGA) and adaptive chaotic particle swarm algorithm is presented for optimizing …

[HTML][HTML] A novel isogeometric beam element based on mixed form of refined zigzag theory for thick sandwich and multilayered composite beams

A Kefal, KA Hasim, M Yildiz - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This study presents a highly accurate, computationally efficient, and novel isogeometric
beam element, named as IG-RZT (m), whose formulation is derived by using the kinematic …