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Hauptverfasser: Jia, Yibo, Meng, Wen, Du, Zongliang, Liu, Chang, Li, Shanwei, Wang, Conglei, Ge, Zhifu, Su, Ruiyi, Guo, Xu
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08995
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author Jia, Yibo
Meng, Wen
Du, Zongliang
Liu, Chang
Li, Shanwei
Wang, Conglei
Ge, Zhifu
Su, Ruiyi
Guo, Xu
author_facet Jia, Yibo
Meng, Wen
Du, Zongliang
Liu, Chang
Li, Shanwei
Wang, Conglei
Ge, Zhifu
Su, Ruiyi
Guo, Xu
contents In aerospace engineering, there is a growing demand for lightweight design through topology optimization. This paper presents a novel design optimization method for stiffened air rudders, commonly used for aircraft attitude control, based on the Moving Morphable Components (MMC) method. The stiffeners within the irregular enclosed design domain are modeled as MMCs and discretized by shell elements, accurately capturing their geometry and evolution during optimization process using explicit parameters. In order to maximize the stiffness and fundamental frequency of the rudder structures, numerical analysis algorithms were developed with shape sensitivity analysis conducted. To comply with the manufacturing requirement, a minimum thickness is prescribed for the stiffeners. Penalty strategies were developed for the thickness and density of stiffeners with thickness smaller than the threshold to meet the thickness requirement and suppress spurious modes. The method's effectiveness was demonstrated through optimization examples of two typical air rudders, illustrating the significance of stiffener's distribution on design objectives. The explicit modeling characteristics allow for directly importing the optimization results into CAD systems, significantly enhancing the engineering applicability.
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spellingShingle Explicit design optimization of air rudders for maximizing stiffness and fundamental frequency
Jia, Yibo
Meng, Wen
Du, Zongliang
Liu, Chang
Li, Shanwei
Wang, Conglei
Ge, Zhifu
Su, Ruiyi
Guo, Xu
Optimization and Control
In aerospace engineering, there is a growing demand for lightweight design through topology optimization. This paper presents a novel design optimization method for stiffened air rudders, commonly used for aircraft attitude control, based on the Moving Morphable Components (MMC) method. The stiffeners within the irregular enclosed design domain are modeled as MMCs and discretized by shell elements, accurately capturing their geometry and evolution during optimization process using explicit parameters. In order to maximize the stiffness and fundamental frequency of the rudder structures, numerical analysis algorithms were developed with shape sensitivity analysis conducted. To comply with the manufacturing requirement, a minimum thickness is prescribed for the stiffeners. Penalty strategies were developed for the thickness and density of stiffeners with thickness smaller than the threshold to meet the thickness requirement and suppress spurious modes. The method's effectiveness was demonstrated through optimization examples of two typical air rudders, illustrating the significance of stiffener's distribution on design objectives. The explicit modeling characteristics allow for directly importing the optimization results into CAD systems, significantly enhancing the engineering applicability.
title Explicit design optimization of air rudders for maximizing stiffness and fundamental frequency
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08995