Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 41, Issue 12, Pages 1760-1767Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2010.08.011
Keywords
Laminates; Buckling; Strength; Finite element analysis (FEA); Steered-fibre panels
Funding
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) [SFRH/BD/16238/2004]
- FCT [PTDC-EME-PME-64819-2006]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/EME-PME/64819/2006, SFRH/BD/16238/2004] Funding Source: FCT
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A large number of composite parts Include cutouts to accommodate windows doors and bolted joints These regions are hot-spots in terms of design because they concentrate stresses hence becoming critical in terms of the structural integrity of the part A traditional approach to the problem of stress concentrations around cutouts is to locally increase the laminate thickness in order to Improve the strength margins Often this practice attracts more loads to the cutout besides increasing part weight A more effective solution is to tailor the panel in-plane stiffness by means of fibre-steered laminates and avoid the stress concentrations altogether The present research demonstrates that It is possible to design and manufacture composite panels whose buckling and first-ply failure responses are insensitive to the existence of a central hole Moreover it is shown that the structural performance of these designs more than doubles that of straight-fibre configurations (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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