Automatic, minimum weight optimum design capability for rectangular, simply supported waffle plates subjected to multiplicity of inplane load conditions is presented; synthesis involves 6 design parameters which are given; mathematical programming problem to which synthesis leads has following characteristics -- relative minima, nonlinear inequality constraints, multitude of side constraints, and nonlinear merit function; numerical results for symmetric and unsymmetrical waffle-plate optimum designs are presented; applicability to space vehicle design.
Structural synthesis capability for integrally stiffened waffle plates
AIAA J
AIAA Journal ; 1 , n 12
1963
17 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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