The analysis aspects of the 23,000-line FORTRAN program VIPASA with constraints and optimization (VICONOPT) are described. Overall stiffness matrices assembled from the earlier exact vibration and instability of plate assemblies including shear and anisotropy (VIPASA) flat plate stiffnesses are optionally coupled by Langrangian multipliers to find critical buckling loads, or natural frequencies of undamped vibration, of prismatic assemblies of anisotropic flat plates with arbitrarily located point supports or simple transverse supporting frames. The longitudunal continuity of typical wing and fuselage panels is closely approximated because the solutions are for the infinitely long structure obtained by repeating a bay and its supports longitudinally. Any longitudinally invariant in-plane plate stresses are permitted, and very rapid solutions are guaranteed by numerous refinements, including multilevel substructuring and a method for repetitive cross sections that is exact for regular polygons used to represent cylinders. Modal displacements and stresses in or between plies of laminated plates are calculated and plotted, with values being recovered at all nodes of substructures. Comparison with usual approximate finite-element methods confirms that, for comparably converged solutions, VICONOPT is typically between 100 and 10(exp 4) times faster.


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    Title :

    Buckling and vibration analysis of laminated panels using VICONOPT


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    Publication date :

    1994-07-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English





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