In aerospace engineering,design and optimization of mechanical structures are usually performed with respect to elastic limit.Besides causing insufficient use of the material,such design concept fails to meet the ever growing needs of the light weight design.To remedy this problem,in the present study,a shakedown theory based numeri-cal approach for performing parametric optimization is presented.Within this approach,strength of the structure is measured by its shakedown limit calculated from the direct method.The numerical method developed for the structural optimization consists of nested loops:the inner loop adopts the interior point method to solve shake-down problems pertained to fixed design parameters,while the outer loop employs the genetic algorithm to find optimal design parameters leading to the greatest shakedown limit.The method established is first verified by the classic plate-with-a-circular-hole example,and after that it is applied to an airtight module for determining few key design parameters.By carefully analyzing results generated during the optimization process,it is convinced that the approach can become a viable means for designing similar aerospace structures.

Songhua Huang;Yugong Xu;Lele Zhang;Geng Chen;Feng Liu

School of Mechanical,Electronic and Control Engineering,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China;National International Science and Technol-ogy Cooperation Base on Railway Vehicle Operation,Beijing Jiaotong Univer-sity,Beijing 100044,China;Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering,Academy of Space Technology,Beijing 100094,China

中国机械工程学报

[1]Songhua Huang;Yugong Xu;Lele Zhang;Geng Chen;Feng Liu-.A Shakedown Strength Based Parametric Optimization Technique and Its Application on an Airtight Module)[J].中国机械工程学报,2022(04):37-49

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