Abstract:A method for calculating the properties of advanced composite laminates, including their variations due to known variations in the properties of the individual plies and the laminate geometry, is presented. The method is useful for understanding scatter in the measured properties of composite laminates. This scatter is particularly important in the design of ultra-low coeflicient of thermal expansion ( CTE ) laminates. Such laminates are designed with a theoretically zero CTE, but in practice have a distributi… Show more
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