Optimum design of fiber-reinforced composite cylindrical skirts for solid rocket cases subjected to buckling and overstressing constraints

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-284

  Liang, Cho Chung ^a   Chen, Hung Wen ^b  

^a DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Angle ply; Buckling; Cross ply; Fiber reinforced; Overstressing; Skirt

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BUCKLING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOTORS; ROCKETS;

CROSS-PLY LAYERS;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0037378329     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-8368(02)00104-X     Document Type: Article

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