BUILDING A COMPOSITE MODEL AND OPTIMIZABLE SHAPE DESIGN OF OPTIMUM DOME FROFILE FOR FABRICATING COMPOSITE PRESSURE VESSELS USING PLANAR WINDING METHOD

Abstract

Composite vessels used widely nowadays. Fabricating composite vessels needs to solve the relationship  “Mateirals- Structure- Process”. This paper shows the method for determining dome profiles of planar filament wound composite vessels- A important problem in designing composite vessels. As a result, the mathematical model and mathematical algorithm for determining optimum dome profiles were obtained based on equilibrium shape conditions and non-slippage condition of fibers.