Designing an airframe is a complex process as it requires knowledge from multiple
disciplines such as aerodynamics, structural mechanics, manufacturing, flight dynamics …

A review on analytical failure criteria for composite materials Page 1 AIMS Materials Science, 4
(5): 1165-1185. DOI: 10.3934/matersci.2017.5.1165 Received: 01 August 2017 Accepted: 08 …

For decades, Composite Materials: Design and Applications has guided readers on the
efficient design of structural composite parts and has illustrated challenges encountered in …

This work represents the first step towards the application of machine learning techniques in
the prediction of statistical design allowables of composite laminates. Building on data …

A new family of composite laminates could revolutionize composite structures to be lighter,
stronger, easier to understand and design, and faster and lower cost to manufacture. For the …

For the past six years, we have been benefiting from the discovery by Tsai and Melo (2014)
that the trace of the plane stress stiffness matrix (tr (Q)) of an orthotropic composite is a …

Composites design has always been perceived to be complicated, time-consuming and
therefore not affordable. With a paradigm shift, it is possible to make composites are as …

Abstract The Double–Double (DD) family of laminates is characterized by the parametric
laminate description [±φ,±ψ] r T. DD promises considerable advantages for aerospace …

The aerospace industry is on a perpetual drive to optimize structures with developments in
modeling and analysis capabilities. The traditionally used laminates with 0°, 90°,±45° …

The failure strength of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic laminates under open-hole tension
varies considerably with ply angle, ply blocking and loading direction. Here, laminates with …