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 …

The functional advantages of tailored stiffness, often seen in nature, are also utilized in
composite structures. Advancements in the multiaxis tow placement and automated fiber …

This work intends to present a novel numerical approach for studying the vibration
behaviours of variable angle tow (VAT) composite structures in their quasi-static nonlinear …

New concepts of lightweight components are conceived nowadays thanks to the advances
in the manufacture of composite structures. For instance, mature technologies such as …

In this work, user-elements (UEL) in Abaqus are taken a step forward into the high-order
layerwise modelling of variable stiffness composite laminates with curvilinear fibre paths …

This work focuses on thermo-elastic analysis of Variable Angle Tow (VAT) composite plates.
Emphasis is given to the through-the-thickness 3D stress component distributions as a …

Driven by a need to improve the efficiency of aircraft and reduce the fuel consumption,
composite materials are applied extensively in the design of aircraft. A dynamic aeroelastic …

The fibre paths of variable stiffness laminates are described through the fibre angles at the
nodes of a finite element (FE) representation of the structure. An algorithm is presented to …

This work presents a refined beam model based on the Carrera Unified Formulation for the
free-vibration analyses of variable stiffness composite laminate characterized by layers with …

Thermoplastic composites offer the potential for reducing the overall manufacturing costs of
aircraft structures by allowing continuous production methods to be applied without the …