A new trigonometric shear deformation theory for isotropic, laminated composite and sandwich plates

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Isogeometric finite element analysis of composite sandwich plates using a higher order shear deformation theory (2013, methodology): “041 TrSDT [59] 256.”
On the free vibration analysis of laminated composite and sandwich plates: A review of recent literature with some numerical results (2015, methodology): “[89–92] developed some trigonometric shear deformation theories for the free vibration analysis of isotropic, orthotropic, laminated composite, sandwich and functionally graded plates.”
Bending analysis of thick exponentially graded plates using a new trigonometric higher order shear deformation theory (2012, methodology): “Recently developed higher order shear deformation theory, in which the displacement of the middle surface are expanded as trigonometric functions of the thickness coordinate and the transverse displacement taken to be constant through the thickness [35], is considered and it is given below:”