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Abstract

The room-temperature shapes of cured unsymmetric composite laminates have out-of-plane warping after autoclave processing. In addition, they exhibit two stable room-temperature configurations due to snap-through phenomena when the side length of laminates exceed a critical value. The cured shape of unsymmetric laminates are influenced by many factors. Experiments show that the effect of tool-plate cannot be ignored and has significant influence on the cured shape.

This study examines slippage effects resulting from the interaction between the laminates and the tool-plate which are ignored in the previous researches. By introducing a dimensionless slippage coefficient and correlating the corresponding value with experimental results, the influence of processing parameters is investigated. Modeling is extended to predict curvatures of general lamination layup configurations.

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