25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-4.8.3

TAILORED FIBRE PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION TOOL

H. Temmen, R. Degenhardt, T. Raible*
DLR, Germany; *ABB Turbo Systems Ltd., Switzerland

Keywords: optimization tools, tailored fibre placement, composites, HTP-connection beam

This paper presents a Tailored Fibre Placement design tool for lightweight aerospace structures which is used to optimize fibre orientations of composite structures. It aims to fully exploit the uniaxial material properties and to increase the load carrying capacity. The optimization concept is explained and results are given on examples.

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