Variable stiffness composite panels : Effects of stiffness variation on the in-plane and buckling response

By Zafer Gürdal, Brian F. Tatting, C. K. Wu. 2008

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Kazem Fayazbakhsh
2. M. A. Nik
3. L. Lessard
4. Damiano Pasini
5. Paul M. Weaver
6. Paul Kealy
7. J. Cooper
8. B. Kim

In Mechanics of Materials

1. Kazem Fayazbakhsh
2. Paul M. Weaver
3. M. A. Nik
4. Damiano Pasini
5. L. Lessard
6. G. Raju
7. Paul Kealy
8. J. Cooper

Citations in the corpus

• Optimization of variable stiffness composites with embedded defects induced by Automated Fiber Placement (2014, background): “The advantage of using curvilinear fibers to improve the structural performance of a composite laminate has been extensively demonstrated [1–6].”
• Multi-objective optimization of curvilinear fiber shapes for laminated composite plates by using NSGA-II (2013, background): “[1, 7-11] defined fiber shapes by the linear changes in fiber orientation angles to require locally desired material properties for plates and conical shells, and confirmed that such structures have superior mechanical properties compared with homogenous plates by research including experimental and”
• Buckling analysis and optimisation of variable angle tow composite plates (2012, methodology): “Linear variation of fibre orientation The linear variation of fibre orientation angles is defined by [5],”
• Optimum stacking sequence design of composite materials Part II: Variable stiffness design (2010, background): “Variable stiffness design also provides flexibility for trade-off between different structural properties [29].”
• Initial post-buckling of variable-stiffness curved panels (2014, background): “It was later shown by Gürdal et al. (2008) that the use of VAT may not only increase the buckling load, but the conflicting requirements for both high in-plane stiffness and high buckling loads may be resolved.”
• Improved aeroelastic tailoring using tow-steered composites (2013, background): “Analytical and experimental studies have shown that the buckling strength and post buckling-behaviour of VAT flat panels can be improved by redistributing the loads in a panel [15–23].”
• Defect layer method to capture effect of gaps and overlaps in variable stiffness laminates made by Automated Fiber Placement (2013, background): “two conflicting design objectives, as opposed to traditional design strategies of constant stiffness laminates [7,8].”
• Framework for the Buckling Optimization of Variable-Angle Tow Composite Plates (2015, methodology): “The distribution of four lamination parameters ξA;D1;2 for establishing an orthotropic VAT laminate configuration is represented in terms of the B-spline surface as x u; v X r X s B x rs N k r u N k s v y u; v X r X s B y rs N k r u N k s v ξ A”