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

A review of displacement and stress based refined theories for isotropic and anisotropic
laminated beams is presented. Various equivalent single layer and layerwise theories for …

This paper proposes several axiomatic refined theories for the linear static analysis of
beams made of isotropic materials. A hierarchical scheme is obtained by extending plates …

This paper proposes a refined beam formulation with displacement variables only. Lagrange-
type polynomials, in fact, are used to interpolate the displacement field over the beam cross …

Static behavior of composite beams with arbitrary lay-ups using various refined shear
deformation theories is presented. The developed theories, which do not require shear …

In the framework of a sinus models family, a new three-noded mechanical beam finite
element is designed for the analysis of laminated beams. It is based on a sinus distribution …

This paper discusses classical and refined beam and plate theories based on the Carrera
Unified Formulation (CUF). Attention is focussed on (but not limited to) a new refined beam …

Prior to the computer era, analytical methods in elasticity had already been developed and-
proved up to impressive levels. Relevant mathematical techniques were extensively …

A new class of beam finite elements is proposed in a three-dimensional fully parameterized
absolute nodal coordinate formulation, in which the distortion of the beam cross section can …

This paper deals with the influence of the use of the Murakami's zig-zag function in the sine
model for the analysis of laminated beams. The adding of this function introduces a …