Buckling load enhancement of damaged composite plates under hygrothermal environment using unified particle swarm optimization

Optimization with Unified Particle Swarm Optimization (UPSO) method is performed for the enhancement of buckling load capacity of composite plates having damage under hygrothermal environment which has received little or no attention in the literature. Numerical results are presented for effect of damage in buckling behavior of laminated composite plates using an anisotropic damage model. Optimized critical buckling temperature of laminated plates with internal flaw is computed with the fiber orientation as the design variable by employing a UPSO algorithm and results are compared with undamaged case for various aspect ratios, ply orientations, and boundary conditions. FEM formulation and programming in the MATLAB environment have been performed. The results of this work will assist designers to address some key issues concerning composite structures. It is observed that the degradation of buckling strength of a structural element in hygrothermal environment as a result of internal flaws can be avoided to a large extent if we use these optimized ply orientations at design phase of the composite structure. This specific application proves the contribution of present work to be of realistic nature.

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