Hydrogen is emerging as a promising future energy medium in a wide range of industries.
For mobile applications, it is commonly stored in a gaseous state within high-pressure …

The automated fiber placement process (AFP) enables the manufacturing of large and
geometrical complex fiber composite structures with high quality at low cycle times. Although …

In recent years, new revolutionary paradigms generally indicated using the term Industry 4.0,
have been conceived and are progressively applied in several manufacturing systems to …

The stickiness of prepregs (tack) is considered a decisive material property for the success
of high‐quality composite manufacturing by automated lay‐up processes such as automated …

Automated fiber placement (AFP) is an advanced manufacturing method for composites,
which is especially suitable for large-scale composite components. However, some …

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 …

Automated tape laying is a well-established composite manufacturing process for high
performance industries. While the process has seen vast growth over the 30 years of its …

This paper presents a parametric level set method for the optimization of composite
structures with curvilinear fibers. We use iso-contours of a scalar function, also called the …

The mechanical performance of fiber-reinforced structures highly relies on fibers' paths in
the matrix material. Unlike the level set method that offsets the zero-level contours of a …

Lightweight fiber-reinforced composite structures have been applied in aerospace for
decades. Their mechanical properties are crucial for the safety of aircraft and mainly depend …