Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF) for the composite plates and shells of revolution. Layer-wise models

A unified framework for equivalent single layer theories of composite beams, plates, and shells: a review

“…The best-known unified method in equivalent single layer theories is the Carrera unified formulation (CUF) which is first proposed by Carrera [11]. The improved CUF theories are suitable for analyzing the global stress distribution in composite laminated structures and their applications have been presented in a large number of publications [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. In 2017, Abrate and Sciuva [32] compared the existing methods to classify the displacement field based on nonpolynomials, polynomials, and the number of unknown variables.…”