Fengrui Liu1, 2, 3, Wanting Yao1, 2, Xinhong Shi4, *, Libin Zhao1, 2, Jianyu Zhang5, *
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 977-999, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07184
Abstract To minimize the mass and increase the bearing failure load of composite doublelap bolted joints, a three-step optimization strategy including feasible region reduction,
optimization model decoupling and optimization was presented. In feasible region
reduction, the dimensions of the feasible design region were reduced by selecting dominant
design variables from numerous multilevel parameters by sensitivity analyses, and the
feasible regions of variables were reduced by influence mechanism analyses. In model
decoupling, the optimization model with a large number of variables was divided into
various sub-models with fewer variables by variance analysis. In the third step, the More >