Zhuo Huang, Ye Tian, Yifan Zhang, Tielin Shi, Qi Xia*
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.1, pp. 711-733, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.045411
- 16 April 2024
Abstract Stiffened structures have great potential for improving mechanical performance, and the study of their stability is of great interest. In this paper, the optimization of the critical buckling load factor for curved grid stiffeners is solved by using the level set based density method, where the shape and cross section (including thickness and width) of the stiffeners can be optimized simultaneously. The grid stiffeners are a combination of many single stiffeners which are projected by the corresponding level set functions. The thickness and width of each stiffener are designed to be independent variables in the More >