[HTML][HTML] Automated fiber placement: A review of history, current technologies, and future paths forward

A Brasington, C Sacco, J Halbritter, R Wehbe… - Composites Part C: Open …, 2021 - Elsevier
Automated fiber placement (AFP) is a composite manufacturing technique used to fabricate
complex advanced air vehicle structures that are lightweight with superior qualities. The AFP …

Advances in computational intelligence of polymer composite materials: machine learning assisted modeling, analysis and design

A Sharma, T Mukhopadhyay, SM Rangappa… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The superior multi-functional properties of polymer composites have made them an ideal
choice for aerospace, automobile, marine, civil, and many other technologically demanding …

A review of multi-objective optimization: methods and algorithms in mechanical engineering problems

JLJ Pereira, GA Oliver, MB Francisco… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The optimization problems that must meet more than one objective are called multi-objective
optimization problems and may present several optimal solutions. This manuscript brings …

Machine learning regression approaches for predicting the ultimate buckling load of variable-stiffness composite cylinders

A Kaveh, A Dadras Eslamlou, SM Javadi… - Acta Mechanica, 2021 - Springer
Due to the high computational cost of finite element analyses, particularly in optimization
tasks, establishing a high-fidelity surrogate model is of immense importance to engineers …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of continuous carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites with optimised structural topology and fibre orientation

H Zhang, S Wang, K Zhang, J Wu, A Li, J Liu… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents a sequentially coupled optimisation of structural topology and fibre
orientation for 3D printing of continuous carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites …

Transfer learning based variable-fidelity surrogate model for shell buckling prediction

K Tian, Z Li, J Zhang, L Huang, B Wang - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a novel establishment method of the variable-fidelity surrogate model
(VFSM) driven by transfer learning for shell buckling prediction problems such as buckling …

Metamodel based high-fidelity stochastic analysis of composite laminates: A concise review with critical comparative assessment

S Dey, T Mukhopadhyay, S Adhikari - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a concise state-of-the-art review along with an exhaustive comparative
investigation on surrogate models for critical comparative assessment of uncertainty in …

A review on the mechanical behaviour of curvilinear fibre composite laminated panels

P Ribeiro, H Akhavan, A Teter… - Journal of Composite …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
A review on works that investigate the mechanical behaviour of variable stiffness composite
laminated panels is carried out in this paper. The review mostly focuses on buckling, failure …

Defect layer method to capture effect of gaps and overlaps in variable stiffness laminates made by Automated Fiber Placement

K Fayazbakhsh, MA Nik, D Pasini, L Lessard - Composite Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
A variable stiffness design can increase the structural performance of composite laminates.
In this paper, a composite laminate with curvilinear fiber paths is designed to maximize …

Optimal design and manufacture of variable stiffness laminated continuous fiber reinforced composites

N Boddeti, Y Tang, K Maute, DW Rosen, ML Dunn - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Advanced manufacturing methods like multi-material additive manufacturing are enabling
realization of multiscale materials with intricate spatially varying microstructures and thus …