A review on the mechanical behaviour of curvilinear fibre composite laminated panels

P Ribeiro, H Akhavan, A Teter… - Journal of Composite …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
A review on works that investigate the mechanical behaviour of variable stiffness composite
laminated panels is carried out in this paper. The review mostly focuses on buckling, failure …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability-based buckling optimization with an accelerated Kriging metamodel for filament-wound variable angle tow composite cylinders

Z Wang, JHS Almeida Jr, L St-Pierre, Z Wang… - Composite …, 2020 - Elsevier
A reliability-based optimization framework is introduced and used to design filament-wound
cylindrical shells with variable angle tow. Seven design cases are investigated to enable a …

Improved aeroelastic tailoring using tow-steered composites

O Stodieck, JE Cooper, PM Weaver, P Kealy - Composite Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
The use of tow-steered composites to tailor the aeroelastic behaviour of composite wings is
investigated. A Rayleigh–Ritz type approach is used to model the aeroelastic behaviour of a …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective design optimization of variable stiffness composite cylinders

M Rouhi, H Ghayoor, SV Hoa, M Hojjati - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The bending-induced buckling improvement in a variable stiffness (VS) composite cylinder
(made by fiber steering) is studied. For such a cylinder, the effect of the variation of the …

Design, manufacturing, and testing of a variable stiffness composite cylinder

M Rouhi, H Ghayoor, J Fortin-Simpson, TT Zacchia… - Composite …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fiber steering is one of the promising capabilities of Automated Fiber Placement (AFP)
technology in manufacturing of advanced composite structures with spatially tailored …

[HTML][HTML] Manufacturing feasibility of a bend free ellipsoidal composite pressure vessel using automated fibre placement

A Air, BG Prusty - Composites Part A: Applied Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Composite pressure vessels are attracting high research interest for their low weight and
remarkable structural performance. Suppressing bending in pressure vessels offers …

Stiffness tailoring of elliptical composite cylinders for axial buckling performance

M Rouhi, H Ghayoor, SV Hoa, M Hojjati… - Composite Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
Automated fiber placement (AFP) machines have made it possible to tailor the material
stiffness properties in a laminated composite structure by fiber steering. The so-called …

A computationally efficient 2D model for inherently equilibrated 3D stress predictions in heterogeneous laminated plates. Part II: Model validation

RMJ Groh, PM Weaver - Composite Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
The higher-order, equivalent single-layer model developed in Part I is applied to the
stretching and bending of exemplar multilayered flat plates, where the results are compared …

Design methods for variable-stiffness super-ellipsoidal pressure vessels under thermomechanical loading

S Daghighi, G Zucco, PM Weaver - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
Pressure vessels are widely used in a broad range of applications in many industries,
including possible use for hydrogen storage. Additionally, pressure vessels comprise non …

Bend-free design of super ellipsoids of revolution composite pressure vessels

S Daghighi, G Zucco, M Rouhi, PM Weaver - Composite Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Shells are thin-walled curved structures that are widely used in many engineering
applications because of their structural performance in reacting transverse loads via …