Optimum Design of Steered Fibre Composite Cylinders with Arbitrary Cross-sections

Automated fibre placement (AFP) machines are able to place simultaneously several bundles of fibres, called tows, on a surface. Using AFP machines, it is also possible to manufacture composite laminates with fibres placed in curvilinear paths. The fibre orientations and stiffness properties of these laminates are spatially varied and hence they...