This review focuses mainly on the developments of element-free or meshless methods and
their applications in the analysis of composite structures. This review is organized as follows …

This paper presents, for the first time, a simple first-order shear deformation shell theory (S-
FSDST) for free and transient vibration analysis of composite laminated open cylindrical …

In the present paper, a method for analysing linear and nonlinear vibrations of circular
cylindrical shells having different boundary conditions is presented; the method is based on …

A unified analytical method based on the first-order shear deformation theory is developed
for the vibration analysis of moderately thick composite laminated cylindrical shells …

A semi analytical method is employed to analyze free vibration behaviors of composite
laminated cylindrical and spherical shells subject to complex boundary conditions. The …

In this paper, a FSDT meshfree method based on the 3D continuous shell theory and
moving-least squares approximation is proposed for the first time to investigate the free …

This paper introduces a variational formulation for predicting the free, steady-state and
transient vibrations of composite laminated shells of revolution subjected to various …

This paper describes a unified solution for the vibration analysis of functionally graded
material (FGM) doubly-curved shells of revolution with arbitrary boundary conditions. The …

This paper presents an analytical investigation on the nonlinear dynamic response of
eccentrically stiffened functionally graded double curved shallow shells resting on elastic …

In this paper, a unified Chebyshev–Ritz formulation is presented to investigate the vibrations
of composite laminated deep open shells with various shell curvatures and arbitrary …