Simultaneous analysis and optimum design of synthetic and vegetable fiber-reinforced composites for buckling - failure phenomena

Abstract

Simultaneous analysis of buckling resistance and first ply failure behavior for synthetic and vegetable fiber-reinforced composites have been evaluated. The Modified Nelder-Mead Algorithm has been used to find the optimum buckling loads, and the failure criteria are selected to find the failure loads. The highlighted point in the present study is the probability of the first ply failure before the buckling. This may occur especially on vegetable fiber-reinforced composites. The study results show that first ply failure occurred before buckling for various loading cases of the structure.

Keywords:

• Buckling
• failure analysis
• optimization
• modified nelder-mead algorithm
• synthetic and vegetable composites