Efficient strength optimization of variable stiffness laminates using lamination parameters with global failure index

Efficient strength optimization of variable stiffness laminates using lamination parameters with global failure index

Hong, Zhi (Hangzhou Dianzi University)
Peeters, D.M.J. (TU Delft Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics)
Guo, Yujie (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

2022

A computationally-efficient strength optimization method tailoring novel composite laminates using lamination parameters is developed. The method adopts a global p-norm approach to aggregate local failure indices into a global failure index, based on the Tsai-Wu failure criterion. For design purposes, the novel composite laminates are characterized via lamination parameters that can subsequently be transformed into locally variable fiber orientations in an existing three-step optimization method. An elliptical formulation of the conservative failure envelope is applied to represent the Tsai-Wu criterion in terms of lamination parameters. A lamination-parameter-based two-level approximation for the global failure index is derived, which guarantees the anticipated conservativeness and convexity in a gradient-based optimization framework. Numerical results show that the computational efficiency of the proposed strength optimization method improves remarkably with a proper value of p, compared to the existing local-based min-max method. The method is also shown to be robust and generate converged optimum designs even in the presence of stress concentrations and singularities.

Global failure index
Lamination parameters
Novel composite laminates
Strength optimization
Variable fiber orientations

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b47f545b-196e-45a0-99be-cfaf407ddb9b

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2022.106856

2023-07-01

0045-7949

Computers & Structures, 271

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© 2022 Zhi Hong, D.M.J. Peeters, Yujie Guo