Optimal design and manufacture of variable stiffness laminated continuous fiber reinforced composites.

ABSTRACT: Advanced manufacturing methods like multi-material additive manufacturing are enabling realization of multiscale materials with intricate spatially varying microstructures and thus, material properties. This blurs the boundary between material and structure, paving the way to lighter, stiffer, and stronger structures. Taking advantage of these tunable multiscale materials warrants development of novel design methods that effectively marry the concepts of material and structure. We propose such a design to manufacture workflow and demonstrate it with laminated continuous fiber-reinforced composites that possess variable stiffness enabled by spatially varying microstructure. This contrasts with traditional fiber-reinforced composites which typically have a fixed, homogenous microstructure an

SUBMITTER: Boddeti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7536228 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature