Volume : 2, Issue : 11, November - 2013

Reliability Based Design Optimization of Laminated Composites – A New Approach

P R Krishna Mohan, N Ananth

Abstract :

The main objective of this work consists of defining a new approach to minimize the Objective function formulated for analyzing composite failure criteria using Reliability based design optimization and also aims at decreasing computational cost. Our approach will mainly focus upon selection of optimum ply thickness of the laminated composites by Monte Carlo Simulation. Numerical simulation and Failure Criteria analysis are exemplified by means of the MATLAB software