Manufacturable insight into modelling and design considerations in fibre-steered composite laminates: State of the art and perspective

BS Aragh, EB Farahani, BX Xu, H Ghasemnejad… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of novel robot-assisted composite manufacturing techniques has enabled
steering of fibre paths in the plane of the lamina, leading to the emergence of the so-called …

Numerical and experimental investigation of vibro-acoustic characteristics of a submerged stiffened cylindrical shell excited by a mechanical force

C Gao, H Zhang, H Li, F Pang, H Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the direct testing method is adopted to measure the underwater vibration and
sound radiation of a typical stiffened cylindrical shell structure under broadband excitation …

Static and free vibration analyses and dynamic control of smart variable stiffness laminated composite plate with delamination

N Sharma, PK Swain, DK Maiti, BN Singh - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work is mainly focused on the static and dynamic analysis of curvilinear fiber
laminated composite plate integrated with piezoelectric layers acting as actuators and …

Vibration transmission and energy flow analysis of variable stiffness laminated composite plates

C Zhu, J Yang - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates the vibration transmission and energy flow tailoring of variable
stiffness laminated composite (VSLC) plates with curvilinear fibres subjected to harmonic …

Frequency veering and nonlinear coupled vibration analysis of variable stiffness composite plates with curvilinear fiber paths

X Liu, W Sun, H Liu, D Du, H Ma - Thin-Walled Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

Explosive blast loading effect on transient mechanical responses of aircraft panels with curvilinear fibers: 3D elasticity approach

Y Heydarpour, P Malekzadeh, KK Żur - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present paper, for the first time, the dynamic loading effect on transient bending and
stress distributions of aircraft nanocomposite sandwich panels including curvilinear fibers …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic analysis of prestressed variable stiffness composite shell structures

G Sciascia, V Oliveri, PM Weaver - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The design space for high-performance lightweight composite structures has grown
considerably since the advent of the variable stiffness concept. In fact, variable stiffness …

Nonlinear dynamic modeling of bistable variable stiffness composite laminates

PM Anilkumar, S Scheffler, A Haldar, M Brod… - Journal of Sound and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The room-temperature equilibrium stable states of cured unsymmetric composite laminates
have been the focus of recent research, with a particular emphasis on shape morphing …

Active flutter suppression of damaged variable stiffness laminated composite rectangular plate with piezoelectric patches

N Sharma, PK Swain, DK Maiti - Mechanics of Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigated the effect of damage on the free vibration and the aeroelastic
response of variable stiffness (VS) composite laminated plates. The ineluctable defects or …

Fundamental frequency optimization of variable stiffness composite skew plates

T Farsadi, D Asadi, H Kurtaran - Acta Mechanica, 2021 - Springer
In this study, natural frequencies and vibrational mode shapes of variable stiffness
composite skewed plates are optimized applying a genetic algorithm. The variable stiffness …