Optimal Design of Smooth Shells both With and Without Taking into Account Initial Imperfections

• Date: 2020
• Main Author: Filatov, Heorhii V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Інститут енергетичних машин і систем ім. А. М. Підгорного Національної академії наук України 2020
• Subjects: thin-walled cylindrical shell; initial imperfections; optimal design; random search; UDC 624.074.4; 681.3
• Online Access: https://journals.uran.ua/jme/article/view/199002
• Journal Title: Energy Technologies & Resource Saving

This paper considers the application of the random search method for the optimal design of both axially-compressed smooth cylindrical ideal thin-walled shells and a shell with initial imperfections. In stating a mathematical programming problem, the objective function is the minimum weight of the sh...