Bilevel optimization of blended composite wing panels

Liu, Dianzi, Toropov, Vassili V., Querin, Osvaldo M. and Barton, David C. (2011) Bilevel optimization of blended composite wing panels. Journal of Aircraft, 48 (1). ISSN 0021-8669

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Abstract

Two approaches are examined for finding the best stacking sequence of laminated composite wing structures with blending and manufacturing constraints: smeared-stiffness-based method and lamination-parameter-based method. In the first method, the material volume is the objective function at the global level, and the stack shuffling to satisfy blending and manufacturing constraints is performed at the local level. The other method introduced in this paper is to use lamination parameters and numbers of plies of the predefined angles (0, 90, 45, and 45 deg) as design variables with buckling, strain, and ply percentage constraints while minimizing the material volume in the top-level optimization run. Given lamination parameters from the top-level optimization as targets for the local level, an optimal stacking sequence is determined to satisfy the global blending requirements. On a benchmark problem of an 18-panel wing box, the results from these two approaches are compared to published results to demonstrate their potential.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Engineering
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2021 00:07
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2022 02:37
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80443
DOI:	10.2514/1.C000261

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