Optimum design of composite structures with curved fiber courses

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1071-1082

  Parnas, Levend ^a   Oral, Süha ^a   Ceyhan, Ümit ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STRESSES;

BEZIER SPLINES;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

DESIGN; FIBER CURVATURE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; OPTIMIZATION; STRESS; THICKNESS; WEIGHT;

EID: 0037404020     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(02)00312-3     Document Type: Article

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