Optimal design of a composite leaf spring using genetic algorithms

By I. Rajendran, S. Vijayarangan. 2001

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fd6e8745de18f26dad8bd0adf52d98e288dc0d93

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In Automotive Engineering

1. Damiano Pasini
2. Hossein Ghiasi
3. L. Lessard

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Damiano Pasini
2. Hossein Ghiasi
3. L. Lessard
4. S. Vel
5. Salvatore Brischetto
6. Romesh C. Batra
7. Lorenzo Dozio
8. H. Matsunaga

Citations in the corpus

• MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE LAMINATES FOR STRENGTH, STIFFNESS AND MINIMAL MASS (2006, background): “Rajendran and Vijayarangan [8] have demonstrated that it is possible to obtain a significant reduction in weight of a mono-leaf composite spring compared to a seven-leaf steel spring.”
• Optimum stacking sequence design of composite materials Part I: Constant stiffness design (2009, methodology): “GA has been used for several objective functions, such as strength [61,63], buckling loads [61,64–70], dimensional stability [71], strain energy absorption [72], weight (either as a constraint or as an objective to be minimized) [73,52,74–77], bending/twisting coupling [67], stiffness [72,78], funda”
• Mono Composite Leaf Spring for Light Weight Vehicle – Design, End Joint Analysis and Testing (2006, unknown): “This is an alternative, efficient and economical method over wet filament-winding technique [1]”