“…A state-in-art and critical review about the measurement of composite structures’ loss factor was presented by Mead (2007), who discussed the heavily damped beam and plate with uniform VDM layers. In the analysis of composite laminate/sandwich structures, there were plenty of research methods and theories, such as the finite element method (FEM) (Ferreira et al., 2013; Moita et al., 2013; Demir and Oz, 2014), laminate plate theories (Robbins and Reddy, 1993; Nguyen and Nguyen, 2015; Huang et al., 2016), asymptotic methods (Chen and Wang, 2009; Boumediene et al., 2011; Zhou et al., 2015, 2016b Zhou and Yu, 2019) and EMs (Trindade, 2010; De Fenza et al., 2016).…”