journal article·2026-03

Three-dimensional free vibration analysis of multi-layer and multi-directional functionally graded parallelogram plates with nonlinearly variable cross-sections

Yuan Gao, Yaqiang Xue, Zhenyang Gao, Chunyu Zhang

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