Minimum-weight design of compressively loaded stiffened panels for postbuckling response

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 175-197

  Perry, Christine A ^c   Gürdal, Zafer ^a   Starnes Jr , James H ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Buckling; Composite design; Imperfection sensitivity; Post buckling; Stiffened panels

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

COMPOSITE DESIGN; COMPRESSIVELY LOADED STIFFENED PANELS; IMPERFECTION SENSITIVITY; POSTBUCKLING RESPONSE;

BUCKLING;

EID: 0031376629     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052159708941131     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Dickson, J. N. and Biggers, S. B. (1980), A preliminary design procedure for composite panels with open-section stiffeners loaded in the post-buckling range. In: Advances in Composite Materials (Ed. A. R. Bunsell, et al.), Pergamon Press, Oxford, 812-825.
2. Biggers, S. B. and Dickson, J. N. (1984). POSTOP: Postbuckled Open-Stiffener Optimum Panels-User's Manual. NASA CR-172260, N84-18682, January.
3. Bushnell, D. (1987). PANDA2 - Program for minimum weight design of stiffened, composite locally buckled panels, Computers and Structures, 25(4), 469-605.
4. Bushnell, D. (1993). Optimization of composite, stiffened, imperfect panels under combined loads for service in the postbuckling regime, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 103, 43-114.
5. Sridharan, S. (1993). Doubly symmetric interactive buckling of plate structures, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 19(7), 625-641.
6. Peng, M. and Sridharan, S. (1991). An optimization strategy for wide stiffened plates subject to interaction of local and overall buckling, Computers and Structures, 41(2), 233-243.
7. Stoll, F., Gürdal, Z. and Starnes, J. H. Jr. (1991). A Method for the Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Compressively Loaded Prismatic Composite Structures CCMS-91-03 (VPI-E-91-01), Center for Composite Materials and Structures, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
8. Wittrick, W. H. and Williams, F. W. (1973). Buckling and vibration of anisotropic or isotropic plate assemblies under combined loadings. Int. J. Mechanical Science, 16, 209-239.
9. Stroud, W. J. and Anderson, M. S. (1981). PASCO: Structural Panel Analysis and Sizing Code, Capability and Analytical Foundations, NASA-TM-80181, November.
10. Vanderplaats, G. N. (1985). ADS-A FORTRAN Program for Automated Design Synthesis-Version 1.10 NASA-CR-177985.
11. Chia, C. (1980). Nonlinear Analysis of Plates, McGraw Hill, Inc., 1-21.
12. Jones, R. M. (1975). Mechanics of Composite Materials, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York.
13. Stoll, F. (1994) An implementation of solution strategies for the analysis of complex nonlinear equilibrium behavior, Int. J of Non-Linear Mechanics, 29(2), 109-122.
14. Perry, C. A. and Gürdal, Z. (1995). Minimum-Weight Design of Compressively Loaded Stiffened Composite Panels for Postbuckling Response, CCMS-95-05, Center for Composite Materials and Structures, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.