Optimisation of composite structures design

✍ Scribed by Antonio Miravete

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the book, Professor Miravete demonstrates the optimisation of beams, plates and sandwich constructions in the designs of advanced composite materials. He also illustrates optimal material systems, fibre orientations and lay-up through functions of geometry, load type and boundary conditions. The associates software, on two disks, will enable users to adapt the information to their own requirements and is very user-friendly with helpful manuals. This will be an essential package for designers and engineers in a wide range of areas, from aeronautics to automotive and marine as well as general industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Design optimisation of constant thickness composite structures; Shells; Constant thickness plates; Constant thickness sandwiches; Design optimisation of variable thickness composite structures; Variable thickness beams; Variable thickness plates; Variable thickness sandwiches.