Sensitivity analysis and inverse problems for laminates and materials

Abstract

New materials such as fibre-reinforced laminates and other composites make it necessary to look at a material point as a microstructure that we can tailor to specific needs by design. From this follows that the application of tools from optimal designs has increased and is important also for solving the inverse problems, i.e. finding the microstructure that offers specified properties. Many different aspects are involved: design for elastic stiffness, design for thermal expansion, design for strength, design for piezoelastic behaviour, design for damage evolution, etc.