The functional advantages of tailored stiffness, often seen in nature, are also utilized in
composite structures. Advancements in the multiaxis tow placement and automated fiber …

This work intends to present a novel numerical approach for studying the vibration
behaviours of variable angle tow (VAT) composite structures in their quasi-static nonlinear …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) printing of continuous fiber-reinforced composites (FRCs)
and automated fiber placement (AFP) technology have enabled the fabrication of variable …

The coupling forced vibration behaviors of a variable stiffness plate with curvilinear fiber
paths at mode veering regions caused by variations of fiber angle have been rarely found in …

The design space for high-performance lightweight composite structures has grown
considerably since the advent of the variable stiffness concept. In fact, variable stiffness …

Buckling resistance of variable stiffness composite (VSC) plates can be significantly
improved by designing fiber orientation distributions, which affect structural stiffness and …

A field-enriched finite element method for crack propagation in fiber-reinforced composite
lamina without remeshing is proposed. In the field-enriched finite element method, the …

Structural components with variable stiffness can provide better performances with respect
to classical ones and offer an enlarged design space for their optimization. They are …

In this paper, several analyses were conducted to investigate the buckling behavior of
Functionally Graded Material (FGM) thin plates with various circular cutout arrangements …

This study presents a numerical modelling framework based on complex variable meshless
methods, which can accurately and efficiently track arbitrary crack paths in two-dimensional …