Heuristics for the Design of Thick Composite Cylinders
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A heuristic is proposed for a problem that occurs in the design of thick composite cylinders: the selection of the angles of wrap of all the layers forming a cylinder for given material properties and layer thicknesses. The heuristic consists of a local search algorithm that improves on a given initial design by modifying the angle of a single layer in each iteration. Each design is evaluated by computing a safety factor. Computational experience with the heuristic is presented and discussed.
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