The main objective of the present paper is to introduce some features of fake/bogus conferences and some viable approaches to differentiate them from the real ones. These fake/bogus conferences introduce themselves as international conferences, which are multidisciplinary and indexed in major scientific digital libraries. Furthermore, most of the fake/bogus conference holders offer publishing the accepted papers in ISI journals and use other techniques in their advertisement e-mails.

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In this article, the dynamic analysis of an infinite Timoshenko beam made of a laminated composite located on a generalized Pasternak viscoelastic foundation is studied. The beam is subjected to a moving concentrated load. It is assumed that the mechanical properties of the beam change in the direction of the beam thickness but remain constant in the axial direction. Closed-form steady-state solutions, based on the first-order shear deformation theory, are developed. By selection of an appropriate displacement field for the composite beam, and using the principle of total minimum potential energy, the governing partial differential equations of motion are obtained and solved through a complex infinite Fourier transformation method. The results are introduced in terms of deflection, bending moment, shear force, and stress. In addition, the effects of stiffness, shear layer viscosity coefficients of foundation, velocity of the moving load, number of layers, and various angles of layers over the beam response are studied. For some specific cases, the results are compared with those presented in some other published papers, with which good agreements are observed.

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