... mechanical design design validation manufacturing composite materials Even in competitive industries such as aviation and automotive, fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) have experienced continuous growth in the last decade and show promising prospects [ 1 ]. The main reasons for this growth...

...J. Prasad; A. R. Diaz This work presents design concepts to synthesize composite materials with special dynamic properties, namely, materials that soften at high frequencies. Such dynamic properties are achieved through the use of a two-phase material that has inclusions of a viscoelastic material...

..., constituting an orthogonal Taguchi array, from the input distributions. The analytical output distributions are, in turn, used to extract the reliability and robustness measures of the system. The methodology is applied to stochastic analysis of a composite materials manufacturing process under uncertainty...

.... 01 August 2000 01 October 2002 04 09 2003 rapid prototyping (industrial) optimisation extrusion elastic moduli finite element analysis composite materials The advent of faster computers and the appearance of new and better CAD/CAE/CAM systems in the mid 1980’s set...