Shear flexible element based on coupled displacement field for large deflection analysis of laminated plates

C1 plate and shell finite elements for geometrically nonlinear analysis of multilayered structures

“…Results obtained for the plate with two layers are given in Table 5. Different plate models are evaluated for the ratio a/e = 10 and a comparison is given with the results from Sita Thankam et al [22] using finite element computations. For the FSDT model, the shear correction factor is equal to 5/6, matching results obtained by Sita Thankam et al [22].…”