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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 232473.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.32473

• Solid Mechanics and Vehicle Conceptual Design • Previous Articles    

Structure optimization of variable-stiffness composite shells and buckling in thermal environments

Yuheng SUN1, Yujie GUO2,3(), Shijie XIAO1, Huiwen CUI1, Hao YAN3, Xiaohui WEI2   

  1. 1.College of Aerospace Engineering,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    2.State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    3.National Key Laboratory of Strength and Structural Integrity,Xi’an 710065,China
  • Received:2025-06-26 Revised:2025-07-28 Accepted:2025-09-03 Online:2025-09-18 Published:2025-09-10
  • Contact: Yujie GUO E-mail:yujieguo@nuaa.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(12472202);Open Project Program of National Key Laboratory of Strength and Structural Integrity(LSSIKFJJ202403014)

Abstract:

Variable-Stiffness (VS) composites have gained significant attention due to their tunable stiffness and strength properties. The instability issues of VS thin-walled structures in thermal environments cannot be ignored. The thermal buckling performance and geometric imperfection sensitivity of laminated plate and cylindrical shell structures with straight layups and manufacturable optimal curved fiber layups under different thermal environments are investigated. First, the optimal layup angles considering the minimum radius of curvature are obtained using an optimization algorithm based on a variable-fidelity Kriging surrogate model. Second, the thermal buckling problems of VS laminated plates and cylindrical shells are studied through static analysis and nonlinear buckling analysis considering thermal environments and initial imperfections. Comparisons are conducted between straight and curved fiber layup laminated plates and VS cylindrical shell considering their imperfection sensitivities. The results show that the linear buckling loads of the optimized VS structures are all greater than those of the straight layup laminated plates. Thermal stress leads to a reduction in the total instability load of VS laminated plates, while having a smaller impact on conventional straight layup laminated plates; for VS cylindrical shell structures, the total buckling load value increases slightly under thermal stress. Temperature has a minor effect on the imperfection sensitivity of laminated plates, while for cylindrical shell structures, temperature increases their compressive imperfection sensitivity.

Key words: Variable-Stiffness (VS) composites, variable-fidelity Kriging surrogate model, fiber angle optimization, thermal buckling, geometric imperfection sensitivity

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