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Mouri Sardar Abadi, P. (author), Baluch, Abrar H. (author), Sebaey, T. A. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Barzegar, M. (author), Lopes, C. S. (author)This work aims to improve the flexural behaviour of unidirectional fibre-reinforced laminates by means of coupling an optimization procedure for quasi-isotropic configurations with the design space opened by dispersed-ply orientations. The design approach consists of finding suitable alternatives to traditional laminates (with fibre...journal article 2023
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Houriet, C.C.M.C.A.G. (author), Damodaran, V. (author), Mascolo, Chiara (author), Gantenbein, Silvan (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Masania, K. (author)Anisotropic materials formed by living organisms possess remarkable mechanical properties due to their intricate microstructure and directional freedom. In contrast, human-made materials face challenges in achieving similar levels of directionality due to material and manufacturability constraints. To overcome these limitations, an approach...journal article 2023
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Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Pagani, Alfonso (author), Augello, Riccardo (author), Carrera, Erasmo (author), do Prado, Alex Pereira (author), Cabral, Pedro Higino (author), dos Santos, Henrique E.A.A. (author)Representative stiffened panels are optimized such that multiple buckling modes and failure (using open hole allowables) occur within a range of 10% of the lowest buckling load. This implies the panels cannot be loaded up to the buckling load without risking failure, hence vibrational correlation testing was used to estimate the buckling loads...conference paper 2022
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Katuin, N. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites (CFRPs) outperform most structural engineering materials in specific stiffness and/or specific strength, especially in their unidirectional configuration. Unidirectional composites can be found as individual structural elements in cables or pin-loaded straps; they are however most commonly found in the...conference paper 2022
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Augello, Riccardo (author), Pagani, Alfonso (author), Carrera, Erasmo (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), do Prado, Alex Pereira (author), dos Santos, Henrique E.A.A. (author), Galeb, Pedro H.G. (author), H. Cabral, Pedro (author)The present paper deals with the buckling and post-buckling analysis of a multilayered composite reinforced panel. The panel, design for aeronautical applications, results in a complex stacking sequence, and the development of a refined model able to describe its geometrical nonlinear behavior is mandatory to avoid the usage of highly...conference paper 2022
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Gomarasca, S. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Atli-Veltin, B. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Luinge, Hans (author)Finding new ways to evaluate the variability of microstructures, and its effect on macroscopic properties such as permeability and mechanical performance [1,2] is of increasing interest in the composite field. The variability of microstructural features at a three-dimensional level is not fully understood and its effect on macroscale properties...conference paper 2022
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de Zeeuw, C.M. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Bergsma, O.K. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)For pick-and-place processes to become widely implemented in industry a consistent and acceptable product quality needs to be achieved. One important quality criterion is the fiber angle deviations in the reinforcement. Handling a reinforcement will subject it to forces due to e.g. gravity and accelerations. These forces can result in in-plane...conference paper 2022
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Experimental and numerical study of bending-induced buckling of stiffened composite plate assembliesTelford, R. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Rouhi, M. (author), Weaver, P. M. (author)Despite their importance in benchmarking numerical simulations, buckling tests still feature compromises between component-level and high-fidelity large-scale tests. For example, compression-induced buckling tests cannot capture the through-thickness or span-wise stress gradients in wing skins. Consequently, the results obtained often require...journal article 2022
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Hong, Zhi (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Guo, Yujie (author)A computationally-efficient strength optimization method tailoring novel composite laminates using lamination parameters is developed. The method adopts a global p-norm approach to aggregate local failure indices into a global failure index, based on the Tsai-Wu failure criterion. For design purposes, the novel composite laminates are...journal article 2022
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de Zeeuw, C.M. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Bergsma, O.K. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)For pick-and-place processes to become widely implemented in industry a consistent and acceptable product quality needs to be achieved. In the state of the art it is assumed that reinforcements will be in perfect condition at the start of forming or draping. In reality the handling process can already result in undesired deformations. The...journal article 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This work presents a new aeroelastic optimisation framework for the preliminary design of variable stiffness composite wing structures. The framework is constructed by sequentially and iteratively solving two sub-problems: aeroelastic tailoring and lay-up retrieval, using gradient-based algorithms with full-analytical sensitivities provided....journal article 2022
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Bussemaker, J.H. (author), Ciampa, P.D. (author), Singh, J. (author), Fioriti, M. (author), Cabaleiro, C. (author), Wang, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Della Vecchia, Pierluigi (author), Hansmann, P. (author)This paper presents the collaborative model-based design of a business jet family. In family design, a trade-off is made between aircraft performance, reducing fuel burn, and commonality, reducing manufacturing costs. The family is designed using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods developed in the AGILE 4.0 project. The EC-funded...conference paper 2022
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Mandorino1, M. (author), Della Vecchia, Pierluigi (author), Corcione, S. (author), Nicolosi, F. (author), Trifari, V. (author), Cerino, G. (author), Fioriti, M. (author), Wang, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author)A retrofit analysis on a 90 passengers regional jet aircraft is performed through a multidisciplinary collaborative aircraft design and optimization highlighting the impact on costs and performance. Two different activities are accounted for selecting the best aircraft retrofit solution: a re-engining operation that allows to substitute a...conference paper 2022
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Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Jones, David (author), O'Higgins, Ronan (author), Weaver, Paul M. (author)Over the past 25 years, interest in thermoplastic composites in aircraft has steadily increased. Combining winding and laser-assisted tape placement is a promising method to manufacture thermoplastic structures using in-situ consolidation, as shown recently by manufacturing a variable stiffness, unitized, integrated-stiffener thermoplastic...journal article 2022
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van der Laan, Ton (author), van Manen, Bas (author), Bruggeman, A.M.R.M. (author), Wang, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Sonneveld, J.S. (author), Timmermans, Huub (author)Most MDO problems currently do not include manufacturing as an optimization domain. Within the H2020 project AGILE 4.0 the intent is to bring manufacturing into the MDO domain using MBSE techniques developed within the project. To demonstrate how manufacturing can be brought into the MDO domain application cases are set up that resemble MDO...conference paper 2022
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Katuin, N. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)The outstanding properties of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites are affected by the development of its microstructure during processing. This work presents a novel approach to identify microstructural features both along the tape thickness and through the thickness. Voronoi tessellation-based evaluation of the fibre volume content on...journal article 2021
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Çelik, O. (author), Bussink, T. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)The effects of laser-induced deconsolidation on the compaction process of CF/PEEK tapes were investigated. First, tapes with different degrees of deconsolidation were manufactured using a laser heater. This procedure resulted in samples with different waviness, thickness, void content and surface roughness values. Then, as-received and laser...journal article 2021
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Çelik, O. (author), Choudhary, A. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)In this study, the effect of rapid laser heating, which is typical during laser-assisted fiber placement (LAFP), on the micro- and meso- structure of the thermoplastic tape was investigated. Thermoplastic tapes were heated above the melting temperature with different heated lengths (30 and 80 mm and heating times (0.2 and 0.8 s) in a dedicated...journal article 2021
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Çelik, O. (author), Hosseini, S.M.A. (author), Baran, Ismet (author), Grouve, Wouter J.B. (author), Akkerman, Remko (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)The effect of thermal contact resistance (TCR) correlated to the degree of intimate contact (DIC) between the incoming tape and the substrate on the temperature history during laser-assisted fiber placement (LAFP) was investigated. A novel experimental methodology was designed to understand the effect with a non-contact method which did not...journal article 2021
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Gomarasca, S. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Atli-Veltin, B. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)Understanding the three-dimensional variability of unidirectional composites is relevant to the material performance and the development of advanced material modelling strategies. This work proposes a new methodology for the characterization of unidirectional composites, showcased on carbon fibre/poly(ether-ether-ketone) tapes. Three...journal article 2021