Abstract
Curved grid stiffeners, compared to straight stiffeners, offer greater flexibility in adjusting the force transmission paths and give better structural performance. In this paper, a level-set-based density method is employed to generate layouts of curved grid stiffeners so that the critical buckling load factor (BLF) of the stiffened structures is improved. During the optimization process, volume constraint is incorporated to control material utilization, and gradient constraints are employed to maintain uniformity in the width of the stiffeners. Finally, the proposed method is demonstrated through several numerical examples.
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