Several stiffened plates arrangements subjected to bending were configured applying the Constructal Design Method (CDM) and solved by Finite Element (FEM), aiming through Exhaustive Search (ES) technique analyze influence of transverse I-Shaped or T-Shaped stiffeners in mechanical behavior. Considering a non-stiffened plate as reference maintaining total steel volume constant, portion was deduc...

This paper reports a new approach to the fabrication of 3D structured diaphragms using integrated surface and deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) bulk silicon micromachining on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. The fabrication process has been applied to a 1 mm × 2 mm × 1.2 μm diaphragm designed for a biomimetic directional microphone. The membrane has two 200 μm × 380 μm × 20 μm silicon proof m...

Elastic stability of ring and stringer-stiffened cylindrical shells under axial, internal and external pressures is studied using Ritz method. The stiffeners are rings, stringers and their different arrangements at the inner and outer surfaces of the shell. Critical buckling loads are obtained using Ritz method. It has been found that the cylindrical shells with outside rings are more stable th...

A parametric study was carried out in order to investigate the buckling capacity of the vertically stiffened cylindrical shells. To this end ANSYS software was used. Cylindrical steel shells with different yield stresses, diameter-to-thickness ratios (D/t) and number of stiffeners were modeled and their buckling capacities were calculated by displacement control nonlinear static analysis.  Radi...

In the present work, an optimization method is proposed in order to produce innovative stiffening layouts for large stiffened cylindrical shell structures, as they appear aerospace industry. A component-based logic applied on a ground mesh of structural elements (shells and beams), which was inspired by techniques explicit topology solid (plane or tridimensional massive models). Geometric compo...