OPTIMUM DESIGN OF ANTI-BUCKLING BEHAVIOUR OF THE LAMINATED COMPOSITES BY DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION AND SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS

Akçair, Mehmet

Laminate composites can be used quite naturally in automotive, marine, aviation and other engineering branches. Determination of buckling load capacity under in-plane composite loads of composite plates is very important for the design of composite structures. In this thesis, Differential Evolution (DE) and Simulated Annealing (SA) are utilized for optimal stacking sequence of a laminated composite plate, which is simply supported on four edges and is subjected to biaxial in-plane compressive loads. The optimization problem parameters are defined as (i) Objective function: critical buck ...Daha fazlası