Journal
ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION
Volume 52, Issue 12, Pages 2044-2061Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0305215X.2019.1702978
Keywords
Robust design optimization; imperfect stiffened shells; hybrid surrogate model; efficiency; accuracy
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11972143, 11602076]
- Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province [1708085QA06]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [JZ2018HGTB0231, PA2018GDQT0008]
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There are many uncertain factors in aerospace structures, such as variations in manufacturing tolerance, material properties and environmental aspects. Although conventional robust design optimization (RDO) can effectively take into account these uncertainties under the specified robust requirement, it is less satisfactory in addressing these difficulties owing to the prohibitive numerical cost of finite element analysis of stiffened shells. To improve the efficiency of RDO of imperfect stiffened shells, a new hybrid surrogate model (HSM), taking full advantage of the efficiency of the smeared stiffener method and the accuracy of the finite element method, is developed in this article. Then, a new active learning method is constructed based on the HSM. Furthermore, a hybrid bi-stage RDO framework is proposed to alleviate the computational burden incurred by repeated structural analysis. An example of a typical 3 m diameter stiffened shell demonstrates the high efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.
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