Computer-aided design of fiber reinforced polymer composite products Academic Article

abstract

• In this paper, a procedure is developed to design fiber reinforced polymer composite products to meet a set of targets properties. This procedure is formulated as a two stage opitmization problem. In the first stage, a solution is developed to the problem of finding the optimum fabric architecture, fiber volume fractions and matrix elastic properties of the composite using a composite property prediction tool. In the second stage, the matrix elastic properties, obtained from the first stage, combined with other matrix physical properties are used as target properties to design the polymer that forms the matrix of the composite. A computer-aided molecular design approach is used in this design step. A case study for the design of a chemical storage tank is included to illustrate the efficacy of the design procedure.

authors

• El-Halwagi, Mahmoud

published proceedings

• COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

• Vaidyanathan, R., Gowayed, Y., & El-Halwagi, M.

citation count

• 16

complete list of authors

• Vaidyanathan, R||Gowayed, Y||El-Halwagi, M

publication date

• June 1998

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Computers and Chemical Engineering  Journal

keywords

• Composites
• Computer Aided Molecular Design
• Design
• Group Contribution Method
• Optimization
• Polymer
• Textile Composites

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/S0098-1354(97)00260-3

start page

• 801

end page

• 808

volume

• 22

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0098-1354(97)00260-3