Modern aerostructures are predominantly of semi-monocoque construction characterized by a thin skin and stiffeners. The latest generation of large passenger aircraft also use mostly carbon-fibre composite material in their primary structure and there is a trend towards the utilization of bonding of subcomponents in preference of mechanical fastening. Current design philosophy requires that cert...

This work considers an aeroelastic wingbox model seeded with run-out blade stiffeners along the skins. Topology optimization is conducted within the shell webs of the stiffeners, in order to add cutouts and holes for mass reduction. This optimization is done with a global-local approach in order to moderate the computational cost: aeroelastic loads are computed at the wing-level, but the topolo...

Presently, wrapping of the welds at the ends of stiffeners is not done to avoid the undercutting of the stiffener corners and the attendant weld repair. The fatigue performance of stiffeners with undercuts was evaluated in a factorial design fatigue experiment. Undercuts at the flange edge and filling of the stiffener cope with the fillet weld were also evaluated. The undercuts did not influenc...

There are many advantages to adhesively bonding stiffeners onto aircraft structures rather than using traditional mechanical fastening methods. However there is a lack of confidence of the structural integrity of adhesively bonded joints over time. Acousto-ultrasonic Lamb waves have shown great potential in structural health monitoring applications in both metallic and composite structures. Thi...

Abstract— The present study is devoted for the development of a mathematical model to predict the structural behavior and critical pressure of composite cylindrical shell under external pressure using finite element analysis. The composites can be tailored to match the external loading. The effect of fibre orientation angle along with stacking sequence of the composites on the loading carrying ...

The stiffened rectangular plate was usually adopted in the blast airtight doors. In order to improve the buckling capacity of stiffened rectangular plate under uniform normal compression, the optimization model of stiffened rectangular plate was set up based on APDL and ANSYS commands, and the sequential linear programming method was executed to optimize the thickness of plate and the sizes of ...

Abstract Stiffened shells and plates are widely used in engineering. Their performance is highly influenced by the arrangement, or layout, of stiffeners on base shell plate geometric features, topology, these stiffeners. Moreover, modular design beneficial, since it allows for increased quality control mass production. In this work, a method developed that simultaneously optimizes topology thei...

This article considers the seismic behavior of beam-to-column joints in steel frames for different bolt arrangements by using of finite element modeling. As the most important beam-to-column joint type, the beam-to-column joints with end-plate is chosen for the analysis. Four different specimens have been analyzed. These models had some differences such as bolt arrangement and the presence or a...

This study is devoted to vibration and acoustic radiation of stiffened plates in the presence in-plane normal shear loads using finite element method. In structural modelling, plate stiffeners are treated as separate elements strain kinetic energies with an elastic boundary introduced. The results show good agreement those obtained other methods. Parametric studies that forces have obvious infl...

Fatigue cracks often occur in the deck asphalt pavement of steel bridges at top longitudinal stiffening rib. To prevent this issue, traditional design strategy bridge structure was optimized, and a new approach is presented. This optimization technique exploits strength simulation steel—epoxy structure, stress concentration location subsequently determined. A solid model including sensitive are...