Optimal design of grid-stiffened composite panels using global and local buckling analyses

37th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structure, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 2315-2325

  Jaunky, Navin ^a   Knight, Norman F ^a   Ambur, Damodar R ^b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; STRUCTURAL PANELS; ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LIGHT WEIGHT STRUCTURES; LOADS (FORCES);

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN STRATEGIES; GLOBAL AND LOCAL BUCKLING; GRID-STIFFENED COMPOSITE PANEL; MATERIAL ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH-RITZ METHODS; TRANSVERSE SHEAR; TRANSVERSE STIFFENER;

DESIGN; AIRCRAFT;

DISCRETE OPTIMIZER; GLOBAL BUCKLING; GRID STIFFENED COMPOSITE PANELS; LOAD FACTOR; LOCAL BUCKLING; RAYLEIGH-RITZ METHOD; SKIN SEGMENTS; STIFFENER;

EID: 0029721442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-1581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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