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- Patent Title: Computing system and method for defining a guide having one or more defined sets of ordered ply orientations
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Application No.: US16714012Application Date: 2019-12-13
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Publication No.: US11861273B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: Richard Joel Thompson , Vladimir Balabanov , Adriana Willempje Blom-Schieber
- Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Current Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Alston & Bird LLP
- Main IPC: G06F30/20
- IPC: G06F30/20 ; G06F111/04 ; G06F113/26 ; G06F111/10

Abstract:
A method, a computing system and a computer program product are provided to efficiently define a guide that includes one or more defined sets of ordered ply orientations. In the context of a method, a plurality of stacking sequence rules are received. The method defines the guide including the one or more defined sets of ordered ply orientations in accordance with a constrained, linear integer optimization formulation. In this regard, the method defines the guide by dividing the guide into a plurality of blocks and determining a plurality of sublaminate stacks that satisfy the stacking sequence rules and that have a size limited by a size of the blocks. For each of the plurality of blocks, the method determines in accordance with the constrained, linear integer optimization formulation a sublaminate stack from among the plurality of sublaminate stacks that is compatible with a respective block.
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