Akif Kutlu

TL;DR: In this article, a method of analysis is presented for investigating the effects of elastic foundation and fluid on the dynamic response characteristics (natural frequencies and associated mode shapes) of rectangular Kirchhoff plates.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed-type finite element formulation is derived for the Mindlin plate-arbitrarily orthotropic Pasternak foundation interaction by applying the Gâteaux differential.

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-linear mixed finite element formulation was developed by means of Hellinger-Reissner principle and it is linearized using the incremental method, which is not only shear lock free in thin plate solutions, but also gives force and moment components at the element nodes directly.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed variational formulation for the stress analysis of laminated composite plates based on Refined Zigzag Theory (RZT) is presented. But the main novelty of the present study is that the flexural behavior of the laminated composites is investigated based on RZT within the light of the Hellinger-Reissner (HR) principle using monolithic approach for the first time.

TL;DR: In this paper, an elasticity solution is presented for monoclinic functionally graded beams subject to a transverse pressure distributed sinusoidally, where material properties are assumed to vary exponentially throughout the thickness of the beam's layers.