A simple higher-order shear deformation theory for bending and free vibration analysis of functionally graded plates

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On the free vibration analysis of laminated composite and sandwich plates: A review of recent literature with some numerical results (2015, background): “Thai and Kim [125] also developed a simple four variable plate theory for free vibration analysis of functionally graded plates.”
Isogeometric locking-free plate element: A simple first order shear deformation theory for functionally graded plates (2014, methodology): “from the analytical methods with high order and third shear deformation theories [38, 39], FEM”
A new inverse trigonometric shear deformation theory for isotropic and functionally graded sandwich plates (2014, result): “Example 6: Finally, Tables 11 and 12 contain the fundamental frequencies and critical buckling loads of Al/Al2O3 sandwich plates of Type C of present study along with those by SSDT, TSDT [47], HDT [49], quasi-3D ([45], [53]) and 3D [48].”