Optimization of elastic properties in the design of textile composites

Polymer Composites

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 305-311

  Vaidyanathan, Ragavan ^a,b   Gowayed, Yasser A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SGT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN; ELASTICITY; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; TEXTILES; VOLUME FRACTION; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; STIFFNESS;

COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; COMPOSITE ELASTIC PROPERTIES; CONSTRAINED NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; FABRIC ARCHITECTURES; FIBER VOLUME FRACTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMUM DESIGN PARAMETERS; STIFFNESS AVERAGING;

PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXTILES;

FABRIC ARCHITECTURE; STIFFNESS AVERAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030127563     PISSN: 02728397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pc.10615     Document Type: Article

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