Topology optimization of a reinforced wing box for enhanced roll maneuvers

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 548-556

  Gomes, Alexandra A ^a,b   Suleman, Afzal ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

FOURIER COEFFICIENTS; REINFORCED WING BOX; ROLL MANEUVERS;

REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 43649092043     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.23028     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. Bisplinghoff, R. L., Ashley, H., and Halfman, R. L., Aeroelasticity, Dover, New York, 1996.
2. Hall, J., "Executive Summary AFTI/F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing," Wright Research Development Center, Rept. WRDC-TR-89-2083, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, Sept. 1989.
3. Miller, G. D., "Active Flexible Wing (AFW) Technology," Air Force Wright Aeronautical Lab, Rept. AFWAL-TR-87-3096, Dayton, OH, Feb. 1988.
4. Kudva, J., Martin, C., Scherer, L., Jardine,A., McGowan, A.-M.,Lake, R., Sendeckyj, G., and Sanders, B., "Overview of the DARPA/AFRL/ NASA Smart Wing Program," Smart Structures and Materials 1999: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, Vol. 3674, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Bellingham, WA, March 1999, pp. 230-236.
5. Bendsøe, M., and Kikuchi, N., "Generating Optimal Topologies in Structural Design Using a Homogenization Method," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 71, No. 2, Nov. 1988, pp. 197-224. doi:10.1016/0045-7825(88)90086-2
6. Bendsøe, M., Diaz, A., and Kikuchi, N., "Topology and Generalized Layout Optimization of Elastic Structures," Topology Design of Structures, edited by M. P. Bendsoe and C. A. Mota-Soares, Vol. 227, NATO AST Series, Series E, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1993, pp. 159-205.
7. Bendsøe, M., Optimization of Structural Topology, Shape and Material, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995.
8. Rozvany, G. I. N., and Zhou, M., "Applications of the COC Algorithm in Layout Optimization," Engineering Optimization in Design Processes, edited by C. M. H. Eschenauer and N. Olhoff, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991, pp. 59-70.
9. Xie, Y., and Steven, G., Evolutionary Structural Optimization, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
10. Eschenauer, H., Kobelev, V., and Schumacher, A., "Bubble Method for Topology and Shape Optimization of Structures," Structural Optimization, Vol. 8, No. 1, Aug. 1994, pp. 42-51. doi:10.1007/BF01742933
11. Gomes, A. A., and Suleman, A., "Application of the Spectral Level Set Methodology in Topology Optimization," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 31, No. 6, June 2006, pp. 430-443. doi:101007/s00158-006-0005-2
12. Osher, S., and Sethian, J., "Fronts Propagating with Curvature Dependent Speed: Algorithms Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation." Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 79, No. 1, Nov. 1988, pp. 12-49. doi:10.1016/0021-9991(88)90002-2
13. Sethian, J., and Wiegmann, A., "Structural Boundary Design via Level Set and Immersed Interface Methods," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 163, No. 2, Sept. 2000, pp. 489-528. doi:10.1006/jcph.2000. 6581
14. Osher, S., and Santosa, F., "Level Set Methods for Optimization Problems Involving Geometry and Constraints 1. Frequencies of a Two-Density Inhomogeneous Drum," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 171, No. 1, July 2001, pp. 272-288. doi:10.1006/jcph.2000.6581
15. Allaire, G., Jouve, F., and Toader, A.-M., "A Level-Set Method for Shape Optimization," Comptes Rendus Mathematique, Vol. 334, No. 12, 2002, pp. 1125-1130. doi:10.1016/S1631-073X(02)02412-3
16. Allaire, G., Jouve, F., and Toader, A.-M., "Structural Optimization Using Sensitivity Analysis and a Level Set Method," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 194, No. 1, 2004, pp. 363-393. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2003.09.032
17. Maute, K., Nikbay, M., and Farhat, C., "Conceptual Layout of Aeroelastic Wing Structures by Topology Optimization," A1AA Paper 2002-1480, April 2002.
18. Maute, K., and Allen, M., "Conceptual Design of Aeroelastic Structures by Topology Optimization," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2, May 2004, pp. 27-42. doi:10.1007/s00158- 003-0362-z
19. Maute, K., and Reich, G., "An Aeroelastic Topology Optimization Approach for Adaptive Wing Design," AIAA Paper 2004-1805, April 2004.
20. Sigmund, O., and Petersson, J., "Numerical Instabilities in Topology Optimization: A Survey on Procedures Dealing with Checkerboards, Mesh-Dependencies and Local Minima," Structural Optimization, Vol. 16, No. 1, Aug. 1998, pp. 68-75. doi:10.1007/BF01014002
21. Sokolowski, J., and Zochowski, A., "On the Topological Derivative in Shape Optimization," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1999, pp. 1251-1272. doi:10.1137/S0363012997323230
22. Allaire, G., Gournay, F. D., Jouve, F., and Toader, A.-M., "Structural Optimization Using Topological and Shape Sensitivity via a Level Set Method," Control and Cybernetics, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2005, pp. 59-80.
23. Taylor, M. E., Partial Differential Equations I - Basic Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997, Chap. 3.
24. Evans, L. C., Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 19, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998.
25. Skrna-Jakl, I., Stiftinger, M., and Rammerstorfer, F., "Numerical Investigations of an Imperfect Stringer-Stiffened Composite Wing Torsion Box - An Analysis Concept," Composites Part B: Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1996, pp. 59-69. doi:10.1016/1359-8368(95)00007-0
26. ABAQUS/Standard User's Manual, Ver. 6.3 , Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc., Pawtucket, RI, 2002.
27. Powell, M., "On Trust Region Methods for Unconstrained Minimization Without Derivatives," Mathematical Programming, Vol. 97, No. 3, Aug. 2003, pp. 605-623. doi:10.1007/s10107-003-0430-6