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 …

Design and manufacturing of composite structures are driving the next generation
innovation cycles for the aerospace, automotive and energy markets. Automated fiber …

Topology Optimization (TO) recently gained importance due to the development of Additive
Manufacturing (AM) processes that produce components with good mechanical properties …

Automatic fiber placement machines have made it viable to manufacture composites where
fiber angles vary continuously—tow-steered composites. The additional freedom provided …

A novel fibre placement method 'continuous tow shearing (CTS)'has recently been
developed in order to minimise process-induced defects in a tow steering process for …

This paper presents a new approach to generate and optimize parallel fiber trajectories on
general non planar surfaces based on level-sets and the Fast Marching Method. Starting …

Benefiting from the progress of manufacturing technology of fiber-reinforced composite
structures, the angle of a fiber is allowed to change continuously, and stiffness can be …

Purpose Fibre-reinforced additive manufacturing (FRAM) with short and continuous fibres
yields light and stiff parts and thus increasing industry acceptance. High material anisotropy …

In the present study, the gap-overlap and curvature constraints on fiber tows are considered
in the design optimization of variable stiffness laminates. The optimization problem is …

Abstract Robotic Automated Fiber Placement (RAFP) technology has revolutionized
manufacturing large fiber reinforced composite structures. Among others, the notable …