Design of variable-stiffness composite panels for maximum buckling load

Composite Structures

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-117

  Setoodeh, Shahriar ^a   Abdalla, Mostafa M ^a   IJsselmuiden, Samuel T ^a   Gürdal, Zafer ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjoint sensitivity analysis; Buckling design; Reciprocal approximation; Tow placement; Variable stiffness panels

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

ADJOINT SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BUCKLING DESIGN; RECIPROCAL APPROXIMATION; TOW-PLACEMENT; VARIABLE-STIFFNESS PANELS;

BUCKLING;

BUCKLING; FIBER ORIENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS;

EID: 51249088179     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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