A design-for-manufacture methodology is proposed herein which incorporates manufacturing uncertainties into an optimal design algorithm for structures fabricated with fibrous composite laminated materials. This article is the first of its kind to develop a methodology that is focused upon addressing this crucial void in composite materials technologies because variations in the manufacturing parameters are responsible for variations in the properties of the resulting engineered macrostructure and also the principal mechanical properties of the final product. The objective function for this class of stochastic optimization problems and the corresponding probabilistic constraints, which are the kernel of the formulation, are transformed into equivalent deterministic quantities using a Taylor's series expansion and principles of probability and statistics.
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