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 overview of layerwise theories for composite laminates and structures: Development, numerical implementation and application

KM Liew, ZZ Pan, LW Zhang - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, a vast number of theories for numerical modeling of laminated
composite plates and shells has been developed by various researchers and for diverse …

A smoothed iFEM approach for efficient shape-sensing applications: Numerical and experimental validation on composite structures

A Kefal, IE Tabrizi, M Yildiz, A Tessler - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
A smoothed inverse finite element method (iFEM (s)) is developed by coupling the inverse
finite element method (iFEM) and the smoothing element analysis (SEA) for real-time …

A comparative study on the bending, vibration and buckling of viscoelastic sandwich nano-plates based on different nonlocal theories using DC, HDQ and DQ …

R Kolahchi - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, bending, buckling and buckling of embedded nano-sandwich plates are
investigated based on refined zigzag theory (RZT), sinusoidal shear deformation theory …

Bending, free vibration and buckling of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced sandwich plates, using the extended Refined Zigzag Theory

M Di Sciuva, M Sorrenti - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents an application of the extended Refined Zigzag Theory (eRZT) in
conjunction with the Ritz method to the analysis of bending, free vibration and buckling of …

Higher order theories for the modal analysis of anisotropic doubly-curved shells with a three-dimensional variation of the material properties

F Tornabene, M Viscoti, R Dimitri - Engineering Analysis with Boundary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The manuscript investigates the dynamic properties of doubly-curved shell structures
laminated with innovative materials employing the Generalized Differential Quadrature …

An experimental implementation of inverse finite element method for real-time shape and strain sensing of composite and sandwich structures

A Kefal, IE Tabrizi, M Tansan, E Kisa, M Yildiz - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the inverse finite element method (iFEM) is experimentally applied to real-time
displacement reconstruction of a moderately thick wing-shaped sandwich structure via a …

Displacement and stress monitoring of a Panamax containership using inverse finite element method

A Kefal, E Oterkus - Ocean Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) is a revolutionary methodology for real-
time reconstruction of full-field structural displacements and stresses in plate and shell …

An enhanced inverse finite element method for displacement and stress monitoring of multilayered composite and sandwich structures

A Kefal, A Tessler, E Oterkus - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
The inverse finite element method (iFEM) is an innovative framework for dynamic tracking of
full-field structural displacements and stresses in structures that are instrumented with a …

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 …