ABSTRACT
Fluid-structure interaction problems in all fields of engineering as well as in naval architecture gained importance, since ships represent a classical situation in which these approaches are required. There is an increasing interest in the marine industry to use composites to improve the hydrodynamic and structural performance of naval structures. Composite materials have high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios, and the fibre orientations can be exploited to tailor the structural deformation to reduce the load and stress variations by automatically adjusting the shape of the structure.
