Optimal stacking sequence design of laminate composite structures using tabu embedded simulated annealing

Purpose Many studies only take into account the ply stacking sequence as the design variable to determine the optimal ply drop-off location; however, it is necessary to optimize other parameters that have a direct influence on the ply drop-off site such as which plies should be dropped and in which longitudinal direction. That way, the purpose of this study is to find the most significant design variables relative to the drop-off location considering the transversal and longitudinal positions, seeking to achieve the optimal combination of ply drop-off locations that provides excellent performance for the laminate plate. Design/methodology/approach This study aims to determine the optimal drop-off location in a laminate plate using the finite element method and an approach statistical with design of experiments (DOE). Findings The optimization strategy using DOE revealed to be satisfactory for analyzing laminate structures with ply drop-offs, demonstrating that not all design factors influence the response variability. The failure criterion response variable revealed a poor fit, with an adjusted coefficient of determination lower than 60%, thus demonstrating that the response did not vary with the ply drop-off location. Already the strain and natural frequency response variables presented high significance. Finally, the optimization strategy revealed that the optimal drop-off location that minimizes the strain and maximizes the natural frequency is the ply drop-off located of the end plate. Originality/value It was also noted that many researchers prefer evolutionary algorithms for optimizing composite structures with ply drop-offs, being scarce to the literature studies involving optimization strategies using response surface methodology. In addition, many studies only take into account the ply stacking sequence as the design variable to determine the optimal ply drop-off location; however, in this study, the authors investigated other important parameters that have direct influence on the ply drop-off site such as which plies should be dropped and in which longitudinal direction.

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A General Ply Design for Aero Engine Composite Fan Blade

Volume 7A: Structures and Dynamics ◽

10.1115/gt2017-64377 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jiaguangyi Xiao ◽

Yong Chen ◽

Qichen Zhu ◽

Jun Lee ◽

Tingting Ma

Keyword(s):

Composite Laminates ◽

Composite Structures ◽

Stacking Sequence ◽

Composite Blade ◽

Arduous Task ◽

Aero Engine ◽

Margin Of Safety ◽

Fan Blade ◽

The Impact ◽

Ply Orientation

Composite fan blade ply lay-up design, which includes ply drop-off/shuffle design and stacking sequence design, makes fan blade structures different from traditional composite structures. It gives designers more freedom to construct high-quality fan blades. However, contemporary fan blade profiles are quite complex and twisted, and fan blade structures are quite different from regular composite structures such as composite laminates and composite wings. The ply drop-off design of a fan blade, especially for a fully 3D fan blade, is still an arduous task. To meet this challenge, this paper develops a ply lay-up way with the help of a software called Fibersim. The fully 3D fan blade is cut into ply pieces in Fibersim. As a result, an initial ply sequence is created and ply shuffle could revise it. Because of the complexity of ply shuffling, the ply shuffle table developed in this paper mainly refers to the design experience gained from simple plate-like laminate structures and some criterion. Besides, the impact of different ply orientation patterns on the reliability of composite fan blade is studied through static and modal numerical analysis. The results show that this ply lay-up idea is feasible for aero engine composite fan blade. Under the calculated rotating speeds, the ply stacking sequence 4 (i.e.[−45°/0°/+45°/0°] with the outer seven groups are [−45°/0°/−45°/0°]) shows the greatest margin of safety compared with other stacking sequences. Modal analysis shows that plies with different angles could have relatively big different impacts on blades vibration characteristics. The composite fan blade ply design route this paper presents has gain its initial success and the results in this paper might be used as basic references for composite blade initial structural design.

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Stacking Sequence Effect of Multi–angle Filament Wound Tubular Composite Structures

Journal of Composite Materials ◽

10.1177/0021998304042077 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 38 (13) ◽

pp. 1095-1113 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

P. Mertiny ◽

F. Ellyin ◽

A. Hothan

Keyword(s):

Composite Structures ◽

Stacking Sequence ◽

Sequence Effect ◽

Filament Wound

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Multi-Objective Optimal Design of Sandwich Composite Laminates Using Simulated Annealing and FEM

Volume 3: Design and Analysis ◽

10.1115/pvp2008-61606 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Sarhadi ◽

M. Tahani ◽

F. Kolahan ◽

M. Sarhadi

Keyword(s):

Simulated Annealing ◽

Optimal Design ◽

Composite Laminates ◽

Composite Structures ◽

Simulated Annealing Algorithm ◽

Core Layer ◽

Sandwich Composite ◽

Surface Layers ◽

Multi Objective ◽

Aspect Ratios

Multi-objective optimal design of sandwich composite laminates consisting of high stiffness and expensive surface layers and low-stiffness and inexpensive core layer is addressed in this paper. The object is to determine ply angles and number of surface layers and core thickness in such way that natural frequency is maximized with minimal material cost and weight. A simulated annealing algorithm with finite element method is used for simultaneous cost and weight minimization and frequency maximization. The proposed procedure is applied to Graphite-Epoxy/Glass-Epoxy and Graphite-epoxy/Aluminum sandwich laminates and results are obtained for various boundary conditions and aspect ratios. Results show that this technique is useful in designing of effective, competitive and light composite structures.

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Optimum Stacking Sequence Design of Composite Laminates for Maximum Buckling Load Capacity

Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering: New Applications - Studies in Computational Intelligence ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-45473-9_2 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 9-50

Author(s):

Ali Kaveh ◽

Armin Dadras Eslamlou

Keyword(s):

Composite Laminates ◽

Load Capacity ◽

Buckling Load ◽

Stacking Sequence ◽

Sequence Design

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The Effect of Ply Orientation and Damage Detection in Composite Stiffened Panel Using Lamb Waves

Solid State Phenomena ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.298.161 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 298 ◽

pp. 161-166

Author(s):

Ouadia Mouhat ◽

Abdelmajid Bybi ◽

Ahmed El Bouhmidi ◽

Hasnae Boubel ◽

Omaima Elmrabet ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Acoustic Waves ◽

Composite Structures ◽

Laminate Composite ◽

Lamb Waves ◽

Stiffened Panel ◽

Signal Acquisition ◽

Frequency Increase ◽

Stiffened Panels ◽

Composite Stiffened Panel ◽

Ply Orientation

The present work proposes a vibration study with different surface and layers orientations at 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 75° and 90°using the Abaqus finite element code, the frequencies Stratified laminate composite panels were studied and the comparison between damaged structures and perfect structures we used stiffened panels based on T-shaped reinforced fibers. Lamb waves (LW) were widely proposed for the long-range inspection of Structural Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) oriented composite structures, the obtained results show the angle effects on the natural frequency increase at a peak then decrease in the form of a sinusoidal half-curve and the numerical results found in this work can be compared to those of other authors in the same area of research, A piezoelectric actuator is used to design acoustic waves and a sensor is used for signal acquisition.

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