Design and Manufacture of Elastically Tailored Tow Placed Plates

By B. Tatting, Z. Guerdal, D. Jegley. 2002

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Experimental study of the effect of automated fiber placement induced defects on performance of composite laminates (2011, methodology): “Some examples are: the staggering technique [6,11,12] and placement of ±45 layers on the top and bottom layers [13].”
A review on design for manufacture of variable stiffness composite laminates (2016, methodology): “Source: Reproduced from Tatting and Gürdal.22 The methods developed in the literature to tackle these manufacturing requirements in design are summarised in Table 2, along with the limitations found.”
Variable-stiffness composite panels: Buckling and first-ply failure improvements over straight-fibre laminates (2008, methodology): “[20,29], based on optimisation designs through application of the Rayleigh–Ritz approach for buckling calculations.”
Optimization of a composite cylinder under bending by tailoring stiffness properties in circumferential direction (2010, methodology): “A typical tow-placement machine [1] has seven computer controlled primary axes that allow for very precise control of the fiber orientation, even on complex shapes.”
Design of variable-stiffness conical shells for maximum fundamental eigenfrequency (2008, background): “Tatting and Gürdal [1–3] used the extra degree of freedom that is provided by variable stiffness to optimize flat”
A review on the mechanical behaviour of curvilinear fibre composite laminated panels (2014, background): “Tow-placement machines have a computer controlled robotic arm with a fibre placement head, allowing for a precise control of the fibre orientation and providing the possibility to curve the fibres within the plane of the laminate; they also have cut/restart capabilities.(13,14) This technology opene”
Buckling analysis and optimisation of variable angle tow composite plates (2012, methodology): “The linear variation of fibre angles has been widely adopted in the analysis, design and manufacture [4, 2, 9, 10, 5] of tow-steered composite structures.”
Surrogate-based multi-objective optimization of a composite laminate with curvilinear fibers (2012, background): “Tatting and Gürdal [11, 12] designed and manufactured flat plates with curvilinear fiber path for maximum buckling load under shear loading.”
A Theoretical Model to Study the Influence of Tow-drop Areas on the Stiffness and Strength of Variable-stiffness Laminates (2009, methodology): “A typical tow-placement machine has seven computer controlled primary axes that allow for precise control of the fiber orientation [2].”