Design of variable-stiffness conical shells for maximum fundamental eigenfrequency

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 870-878

  Blom, Adriana W ^a   Setoodeh, Shahriar ^a   Hol, Jan M A M ^a   Gürdal, Zafer ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composite; Conical shell; Fundamental frequency; Optimization; Tow placement; Variable stiffness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEOMETRY;

CONICAL SHELLS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; TOW PLACEMENT; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 40849141373     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.04.020     Document Type: Article

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