Minimum cost design of a cellular plate loaded by uniaxial compression

Cellular plates are constructed from two base plates and an orthogonal grid of stiffeners welded between them. Halved rolled I-section stiffeners are used for fabrication aspects. The torsional stiffness of cells makes the plate very stiff. In the case of uniaxial compression the buckling constraint is formulated on the basis of the classic critical stress derived from the Huber’s equation for orthotropic plates. The cost function contains the cost of material, assembly and welding and is formulated according to the fabrication sequence. The unknown variables are the base plate thicknesses, height of stiffeners and numbers of stiffeners in both directions. The cellular plate is lighter and cheaper than the plate stiffened on one side. The Particle Swarm Optimization and the IOSO techniques are used to find the optimum. PSO contains crazy bird and dynamic inertia reduction criteria, IOSO is based on a response surface technology.

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