Approximation of the critical buckling factor for composite panels

Approximation of the critical buckling factor for composite panels

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Article ID: iaor20125657
Volume: 46
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 561
End Page Number: 584
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Journal: Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Authors: ,
Keywords: engineering, design
Abstract:

This article is concerned with the approximation of the critical buckling factor for thin composite plates. A new method to improve the approximation of this critical factor is applied based on its behavior with respect to lamination parameters and loading conditions. This method allows accurate approximation of the critical buckling factor for non‐orthotropic laminates under complex combined loadings (including shear loading). The influence of the stacking sequence and loading conditions is extensively studied as well as properties of the critical buckling factor behavior (e.g concavity over tensor D or out‐of‐plane lamination parameters). Moreover, the critical buckling factor is numerically shown to be piecewise linear for orthotropic laminates under combined loading whenever shear remains low and it is also shown to be piecewise continuous in the general case. Based on the numerically observed behavior, a new scheme for the approximation is applied that separates each buckling mode and builds linear, polynomial or rational regressions for each mode. Results of this approach and applications to structural optimization are presented.

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