Aeroelastic Stability of Conventional and Tow-Steered Composite Plates Under Stochastic Fiber Volume

The numerical investigation of the stochastic aeroelastic characteristics of conventional and tow-steered composite laminates subjected to random uncertainties affecting the laminate fiber volume is addressed in the present paper. A computationally efficient stochastic model is constructed combining the semi-analytical Rayleigh–Ritz approach with the Karhunen–Loève discretization of the two-dimensional random field representing the fiber volume....