A Review of Refined Shear Deformation Theories for Isotropic and Anisotropic Laminated Beams

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Free vibration analysis of composite and sandwich plates using an improved discrete Kirchhoff quadrilateral element based on third-order zigzag theory (2008, background): “Reviews of various 2D theories for laminated plates have been presented by Noor and Burton [28] and more recently by Ghugal and Shimpi [ 14 ].”
Refined One-Dimensional Formulations for Laminated Structure Analysis (2012, methodology): “Different techniques can be employed to construct higher-order models, as clearly stated by Ghugal and Shimpi [18].”
Static and free vibration analysis of laminated beams by refined theory based on Chebyshev polynomials (2015, background): “Further studies have been made in [29,30] aimed to develop a general and reliable theory capable to capture every aspect of the complex nature of the composite materials.”
Recent developments in finite element analysis for laminated composite plates (2009, background): “[4] Ghugal YM, Shimpi RP.”