Abstract: A horizontally curved beam element of arbitrary shape having three nodes and three degrees of freedom (vertical deflection, bending rotation, and twisting rotation) at each node is presented. The proposed element looks ...

Abstract: An efficient six-noded triangular element based on refined plate theory is developed for the analysis of sandwich plates with stiff laminated face sheets and it is applied to a free vibration problem in this paper. The ...

Abstract: The bending response of sandwich plates with stiff laminated face sheets is studied by a six-noded triangular element having seven degrees of freedom at each node. The element formulation is based on a refined higher-order ...

Abstract: A triangular element based on Reissner–Mindlin plate theory is developed and it is applied to free vibration analysis of plates in different situations. The element has three corner nodes, three mid-side nodes and an ...

Abstract: A finite element dynamic instability analysis of stiffened shell panels with cutout subjected to uniform in-plane harmonic edge loading along the two opposite edges is presented in this paper. ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the study of dynamic or parametric instability behavior of laminated composite stiffened plates with step-uniform and concentrated in-plane harmonic edge loading. The eight-noded isoparametric degenerated ...