9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Authors: Juan Pablo Leiva, Dipankar K. Ghosh and Naveen Rastogi
Publication Date: Sep. 4-6, 2002
Abstract:

A simple approach to stacking sequence optimization of composite laminates is presented. The original stacking sequence problem is solved using an equivalent sizing optimization problem with continuous design variables.