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A novel bistable hybrid composite laminate

  • Fuhong Dai*
  • , Boming Zhang
  • , Shanyi Du
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

A bistable unsymmetric hybrid composite laminate with quite high stiffness and large shape change is presented. Rayleigh-Ritz method is used to predict the cured shape and the predited results are well agreed with the experimentals. The critical loads switching between different shapes are tested. It shows that the critical load for hybrid composite laminates increases greatly (up to 10 times) compared with the pure fiber reinforced polymer matrix composite laminates. The influence of different geometric and material properites on the bistable shape is discussed. It reveals that the present hybrid bistable laminate is more designable and miscellaneous.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICCM-17 - 17th International Conference on Composite Materials
PublisherInternational Committee on Composite Materials
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

Keywords

  • Hybrid composites
  • Multistable
  • Unsymmetric laminate

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