TITLE:
Using MATLAB to Design and Analyse Composite Lami-nates
AUTHORS:
A. Ramsaroop, K. Kanny
KEYWORDS:
Composite Laminates, Hooke’s Law, Fibre Angle, MATLAB, Composite Design
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
26,
2010
ABSTRACT: This work deals with the generation of MATLAB script files that assists the user in the design of a composite laminate to operate within safe conditions. The inputs of the program are the material properties, material limits and loading conditions. Equations based on Hooke’s Law for two-dimensional composites were used to determine the global and local stresses and strains on each layer. Failure analysis of the structure was performed via the Tsai-Wu failure theory. The output of the program is the optimal number of fibre layers required for the composite laminate, as well as the orientation of each layer.