Design of variable stiffness composite panels for maximum fundamental frequency using lamination parameters

Composite Structures

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 283-291

  Abdalla, Mostafa M ^a   Setoodeh, Shahriar ^a   Gürdal, Zafer ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Frequency optimisation; Lamination parameters; Variable stiffness panels

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; LAMINATING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

GENERALISED RECIPROCAL APPROXIMATION; LAMINATION PARAMETERS; VARIABLE STIFFNESS PANELS;

STRUCTURAL PANELS;

COMPOSITE PROPERTY; DESIGN; FIBER CURVATURE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; LAMINATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS;

EID: 34250644949     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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