Because of their superior mechanical and environmental properties compared to traditional
metals, fiber-reinforced composite materials have earned a prevalent acceptance for …

Usage of fiber reinforced composite material entered an new era when leading aircraft
OEMs took an unprecedented step to design and manufacture essentially full composite …

This paper presents a novel methodology to simultaneously determine the optimal ply-order,
ply-number and ply-drop configuration of laminate wind turbine blades using simulation …

In wind turbine blades, the complex resultant geometry due to the aerodynamic design
cannot be modified in the successive mechanical design stage. Hence, the reduction of the …

This manuscript proposes two novel formulations for the manufacturable stacking sequence
retrieval of laminated composite structures. Detailed sizing of composite structures is …

A bi-level optimization strategy for finding the optimal ply numbers and stacking sequence in
composite structures has become one of the most popular techniques in recent years. When …

This paper demonstrates a stacking sequence optimisation process of a composite aircraft
wing skin. A two-stage approach is employed to satisfy all sizing requirements of this …

The present work sets out the evaluation of composite laminates through optimization
objective functions. Genetic Algorithms (GA), as well as Simulated Annealing (SA), were …

This paper presents an efficient bi-level optimization technique to obtain the optimal stacking
sequence for symmetric composite structures. The proposed approach involves two levels of …

This work presents a metamodel strategy to approximate the buckling load response of
laminated composite plates. In order to obtain representative data for training the …