The dynamic behavior of composite laminates is very complex because there are many concurrent phenomena during composite laminate failure under impact load. Fiber breakage, delaminations, matrix cracking, plastic deformations ...

Based on the classical laminated plate theory, a variational approach for the study of the statical and dynamical behaviour of arbitrary quadrilateral anisotropic plates with various boundary conditions is developed. The ...

This paper is devoted to study the behavior, in the range of linear viscoelasticity, of shear flexible thin-walled beam members constructed with composite laminated fiber-reinforced plastics. This work appeals to the ...

Based on a seven-degree-of-freedom shear deformable beam model, analytical solutions are derived for the lateral stability analysis of cross-ply laminated thin-walled beams subjected to combined axial and bending loads. ...

A general analytical-numerical approach developed for the dynamical analysis of unsymmetrically laminated plates of general quadrilateral planforms is presented in this work. An arbitrary quadrilateral thin flat laminate ...

In this paper, analytical solutions are developed for the free vibration analysis of tapered thin-walled laminated-composite beams with closed cross-sections. The present approach is based in a recently developed model ...

In this paper, a problem formulation and solution methodology for optimal design of thin-walled composite beams is presented. The aim is to maximize the buckling load capacity and minimize the weight of the beam. For this ...

A geometrically non-linear theory for thin-walled composite beams is developed for both open and closed cross-sections and taking into account shear flexibility (bending and warping shear). This non-linear formulation is ...

This work addresses the evaluation of the stiffness of fiber-reinforced composite laminates, by means of a computational meso-mechanic model, considering two non-uniformly spaced transverse matrix cracks. Laminates with ...