Composite Structures 4: Volume 1 Analysis and Design Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
An Overview of Composite Plate Buckling....Pages 1-29
A Composite Structural System for a Large Collapsible Space Antenna....Pages 30-44
Outgassing of Spacecraft Composites....Pages 45-58
On the Design of Prestressed and Non-prestressed Bolted Joints in Glass Fibre Reinforced UP-Laminates....Pages 59-73
Study on Static and Long-Term Strength of Mechanically Fastened GFRP and CFRP....Pages 74-85
Inserts for Fastening Sheet Molding Compounds....Pages 86-99
Stability of an Orthotropic Plate Subjected to a Follower Force....Pages 100-108
The Effect of Shear Deformation on the Bending and Buckling of Anisotropic Laminated Plates....Pages 109-121
Interactive Buckling Effects in Stiffened FRP Panels....Pages 122-137
Post-buckled Stiffness of Rectangular Orthotropic Composite Laminates....Pages 138-151
Large Deflection of Anisotropic Bimodular Composite Material Plates....Pages 152-161
Design of the ARALL F-27 Lower Wing Fatigue Panel....Pages 162-177
The Construction of a Postbuckled Carbon Fibre Wing Box....Pages 178-190
Design of 32-m Diameter GRP/Composite Blade....Pages 191-205
Design, Manufacturing and Tests of Large Wind Turbine Rotor Blades....Pages 206-211
Wind Turbines—The Potential for Composites....Pages 212-222
Structural Performance of Centrifugally Cast Glass Reinforced Plastic Pipes....Pages 223-234
The Support of Horizontal Cylindrical GRP Vessels—Saddles or Longitudinal Beams?....Pages 235-252
How to Predict the Burst Pressure of a FRP Pipe....Pages 253-261
A Refined Theory of Laminated Doubly Curved Shells....Pages 262-274
On the Behavior of Conical Shells Composed of Quasi-isotropic Composite Shells....Pages 275-293
Delamination Buckling of Pressure-loaded Thin Cylinders and Panels....Pages 294-308
Composite Tension Members for Structural Applications....Pages 309-320
Design of a Sofa for a Passenger Train....Pages 321-332
Innovative Use of Syntactic Foam in GRP Sandwich Construction for Wind Generator Nacelles....Pages 333-341
A Design Study of Material Production for Composite Coil Springs....Pages 342-356
Multilevel Optimization Procedure of Composite Structure....Pages 357-367
Optimum Design of Hybrid Fibrous Laminated Composite Plates Subject to Axial Compression....Pages 368-377
Optimum Design Based on Reliability for Composite Laminates....Pages 378-392
Multilevel Optimization of Composite Structures....Pages 393-403
Thermal Expansion of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete up to 800°C....Pages 404-415
Effects of Temperature Changes and Large Amplitude on Vibrations of Composite Triangular Plates....Pages 416-423
Thermal Buckling of Symmetric Angle-ply Laminated Plates....Pages 424-435
Nonlinear Vibration and Bending of Laminated Anisotropic Circular Plates....Pages 436-446
The Use of Spline Functions in Calculating the Natural Frequencies of Anisotropic Rectangular Laminates....Pages 447-460
Vibrations of Unsymmetrically Laminated Plates Subjected to Inplane Initial Stresses....Pages 461-475
Maximum Frequency Design of Symmetric Angle-ply Laminates....Pages 476-487
An Analytical Study of the Free Vibration Characteristics of Thin Orthotropic Cylinders....Pages 488-501
Free Vibration Analysis of an Orthotropic Circular Cylindrical Shell of Laminated Composite....Pages 502-508
Dynamic Buckling of Antisymmetrically Laminated Imperfect Rectangular Plates....Pages 509-518
Dynamic Response of CFRP Plates under the Action of Random Acoustic Loading....Pages 519-535
Exact Finite Element Method for Sandwich Beams....Pages 536-554
Degradation Models in Finite Element Analysis of Multilayered Composite Structures....Pages 555-563
Finite Element Analysis for Large Composite Structure....Pages 564-585
Large-scale Structural Analysis/Synthesis of Composite Structures by Finite Elements....Pages 586-599
Back Matter....Pages 601-634