TY - JOUR
T1 - Lightweight Design of Variable-Stiffness Cylinders with Reduced Imperfection Sensitivity Enabled by Continuous Tow Shearing and Machine Learning
AU - Dos Santos, Rogério R.
AU - Castro, Saullo G.P.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The present study investigates how to apply continuous tow shearing (CTS) in a manufacturable design parameterization to obtain reduced imperfection sensitivity in lightweight, cylindrical shell designs. The asymptotic nonlinear method developed by Koiter is applied to predict the postbuckled stiffness, whose index is constrained to be positive in the optimal design, together with a minimum design load. The performance of three machine learning methods, namely, Support Vector Machine, Kriging, and Random Forest, are compared as drivers to the optimization towards lightweight designs. The new methodology consists of contributions in the areas of problem modeling, the selection of machine learning strategies, and an optimization formulation that results in optimal designs around the compromise frontier between mass and stiffness. The proposed ML-based framework proved to be able to solve the inverse problem for which a target design load is given as input, returning as output lightweight designs with reduced imperfection sensitivity. The results obtained are compatible with the existing literature where hoop-oriented reinforcements were added to obtain reduced imperfection sensitivity in composite cylinders.
AB - The present study investigates how to apply continuous tow shearing (CTS) in a manufacturable design parameterization to obtain reduced imperfection sensitivity in lightweight, cylindrical shell designs. The asymptotic nonlinear method developed by Koiter is applied to predict the postbuckled stiffness, whose index is constrained to be positive in the optimal design, together with a minimum design load. The performance of three machine learning methods, namely, Support Vector Machine, Kriging, and Random Forest, are compared as drivers to the optimization towards lightweight designs. The new methodology consists of contributions in the areas of problem modeling, the selection of machine learning strategies, and an optimization formulation that results in optimal designs around the compromise frontier between mass and stiffness. The proposed ML-based framework proved to be able to solve the inverse problem for which a target design load is given as input, returning as output lightweight designs with reduced imperfection sensitivity. The results obtained are compatible with the existing literature where hoop-oriented reinforcements were added to obtain reduced imperfection sensitivity in composite cylinders.
KW - buckling
KW - differential evolution
KW - filament winding
KW - imperfection
KW - imperfection sensitivity
KW - Kriging
KW - post-buckling
KW - random forest
KW - support vector machine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132178452&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ma15124117
DO - 10.3390/ma15124117
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132178452
SN - 1996-1944
VL - 15
JO - Materials
JF - Materials
IS - 12
M1 - 4117
ER -