Abstract
In recent years, to achieve high-performance and cost-effective engineering structures, the advanced composite materials have been increasingly applied in various areas of science and technology. In this chapter, the finite element analysis of composite beams using a simple one-dimensional layered composite beam element is introduced. The element has two nodes and two degrees of freedom per node. It can be used for the analyses of both homogeneous and composite beams. The Timoshenko's beam functions are employed to construct the displacement shape functions for the beam element, thus providing a unified formulation for both slender and deep beam analyses, and the notorious shear-locking problem is avoided naturally without the employment of any remedial scheme.
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