The composite structures in the aerospace industry for in recent decades are widely applied however, at the beginning of the 21st century composites are growing rapidly. The largest companies in the aerospace industry are increasing the volume of composites application of in the structures, and nowadays the volume of composites reaches 50%. The different elements of aircraft and even highly loaded structures such as spars, ribs, skin, etc., are currently made from composites. First of all, this is due to the possibility of a significant reduction in the weight of the structure, as well as a decreasing in production costs. The advanced technologies in the engineering software allows to solute different complex problems. One of the main direct of research in the composites is optimization of composite structure due to improving the relative strength and relative stiffness of the composite structure, and improving the efficiency of manufacturing processes. There are a lot of methods of optimizations but currently the   topological optimization is the most conceptual and forward-looking method. The main goal of the article is to analyze and estimate the approach for designing wing rib with symmetric laminated plates with the different fiber orientation based on the topology optimization. The following tasks were solved for this: firstly, a topological optimization model was determined. This model was based on maximum stiffness with a specified volume constraint is established. The next step was optimization by the solid isotropic material with penalization (SIMP) model and sensitivity filtering technique; as a result of optimization the topological structures of wing rib with different fibre orientations were obtained. The topological structure and stiffness of the wing rib depend on the fibre orientation. Finally, the corresponding morphing analysis of wing rib with laminated plates is implemented by adopting ANSYS, which verified the anti-deforming capability of topology structure and illustrated the feasibility for designing the wing rib. The result shows that the maximum deformation of optimized structure is 1.57mm, whereas the maximum deformation of the un-optimized structure is 2.02 mm. Under the condition of the same material removals, the optimized structure can decrease by more than 20% deformations.


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    Title :

    TOPOLOGICAL DESIGNING AND ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOSITE WING RIB


    Contributors:
    Zheng Hu (author) / Olexii Vambol (author)


    Publication date :

    2020




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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