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

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 …

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 …

The static and dynamic behavior of three-layered composite structures is investigated in the
present work through the presently proposed finite-element (FE) expressions. Relative to …

A novel isogeometric plate formulation based on {3, 2}-order refined zigzag theory (RZT) is
developed and coupled with the parametric high fidelity generalized method of cells …

Piezoelectric actuators have been highly successful in a wide range of structural control
applications. As such, there is an ongoing need for rapid and accurate structural analysis …

The study of the instability created by the pull-in voltage on electrostatic NEMS/MEMS
devices have been studied by many researchers during the recent years. In the present …

Multi-span composite lattice sandwich beams have wide application prospects in the
aerospace, high-speed trains and civil engineering fields because of the low specific weight …

The automotive industry needs composite materials to decrease the weight of new-
generation vehicles whilst increasing their strength. In this study, one of the critical (load …

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is used in machine tool components to provide high
specific stiffness with high damping properties and low thermal expansion; further, it is …