Layout design of thin-walled structures with lattices and stiffeners using multi-material topology optimization  

作　　者：Yang LI Tong GAO Qianying ZHOU Ping CHEN Dezheng YIN Weihong ZHANG 

机构地区：[1]State IJR Center of Aerospace Design and Additive Manufacturing,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072,China [2]Institute of Intelligence Material and Structure,Unmanned System Technologies,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072,China [3]Beijing Aerospace Technology Institute,Beijing 100074,China [4]Beijing Institute of Long March Space Vehicle,Beijing 100076,China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Aeronautics》2023年第4期496-509,共14页中国航空学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12172294,51735005,12032018).

摘　　要：In this paper,the thin-walled structures with lattices and stiffeners manufactured by additive manufacturing are investigated.A design method based on the multi-material topology optimization is proposed for the simultaneous layout optimization of the lattices and stiffeners in thin-walled structures.First,the representative lattice units of the selected lattices are equivalent to the virtual homogeneous materials whose effective elastic matrixes are achieved by the energy-based homogenization method.Meanwhile,the stiffeners are modelled using the solid material.Subsequently,the multi-material topology optimization formulation is established for both the virtual homogeneous materials and solid material to minimize the structural compliance under mass constraint.Thus,the optimal layout of both the lattices and stiffeners could be simultaneously attained by the optimization procedure.Two applications,the aircraft panel structure and the equipment mounting plate,are dealt with to demonstrate the detailed design procedure and reveal the effect of the proposed method.According to numerical comparisons and experimental results,the thin-walled structures with lattices and stiffeners have significant advantages over the traditional stiffened thin-walled structures and lattice sandwich structures in terms of static,dynamic and anti-instability performance.

关 键 词：Layout design Thin walled structures Topology optimization LATTICE STIFFENER 

分 类 号：V22[航空宇航科学与技术—飞行器设计] V42