Tow-placement technology and fabrication issues for laminated composite structures

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2716-2733

  Gürdal, Zafer ^a,c,d   Tatting, Brian F ^a,c   Chauncey Wu, K ^b,e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Faculty of Aerospace Structures   (Netherlands)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Exploration Concepts Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; FABRICATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS;

FIBER PATHS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOW-PLACEMENT TECHNOLOGY; TOW-STEERING;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 28844487098     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-2017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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