在直升机桨叶结构设计中所采用的优化法和自动设计法

随著计算机技术的飞速发展,优化技术和自动化技术已进入许多领域,使设计者从被动地对设计方案进行校核进入主动的方案设计,实现设计法的飞跃。本文从设计周期、设计质量、设计效益等方面叙述在直升机某叶结构设计中采用优化法和自动化法的必要性和可行性。     

直升机旋翼桨叶除冰结构设计

直升机旋翼桨叶除冰技术对保证直升机飞行安全是十分重要的。由于种种原因,我国目前研制的直升机都没有装备旋翼桨叶除冰装置,相关的技术研究也刚刚起步。本文介绍了直升机旋翼桨叶除冰结构设计方法,并在某型直升机旋翼桨叶参考方案的基础上进行了除冰装置的结构优化设计,确定了一个满足除冰要求和旋翼桨叶的静、动特性及强度要求的结构设计方案。     

一副国产复合材料桨叶的结构设计与研制

本文介绍了在某直升机原理性旋翼桨叶的研究中,立足国内设计分析、材料、工艺及试验等技术,开展自行设计研制,从桨叶气动参数配置、结构铺层设计、材料工艺准备、产品试制试验以至试飞验证的主要过程;概括地描述了这副复合材料旋翼桨叶的技术特色;总结和讨论了在设计与工程研制中所遇到的一些典型问题及其处理方法。     

直升机复合材料国产化桨叶剖面特性的分析

由于国产复合材料性能较进口复合材料有较大变化,根据替代前后桨叶的动力学特性基本不变的原则对原桨叶结构进行了调整。采用薄壁梁横截面剪流相等的原理推导了桨叶扭转刚度的计算公式,基于挥舞刚度、摆振刚度、质量分布的定义得到了迭代公式。对某直升机替代前后桨叶的剖面特性进行了计算。结果表明：替代前后桨叶的扭转刚度、挥舞刚度、摆振刚度及单位长度质量分布完全一致,说明替代前后桨叶的剖面特性有很好的一致性。     

航空发动机多辐板风扇盘拓扑优化与形状优化设计技术

为了设计出高性能航空发动机风扇盘结构,首先采用基于自适应随机抽样双向渐进拓扑优化方法对风扇盘进行拓扑优化,得到轮盘合理拓扑构型,然后基于该拓扑构型,采用形状优化方法对轮盘构型做进一步优化。结果表明,在满足强度要求下,设计出了高性能的三辐板、四辐板风扇盘最终减重19.23%,21.59%(其中拓扑优化减重17.12%,19.43%),并且最优解应变能密度分布更加均匀,说明了宽弦风扇盘的合理构型是由若干辐板组成的多辐板结构。      

优化驱动的起落架结构设计方法

起落架结构是飞机上最复杂最重要的结构之一,传统的设计方法依靠人工经验反复迭代,没有充分利用结构优化技术,具有设计周期长且不能最大限度得到最优设计的缺点。根据结构优化技术的发展,提出了优化驱动的起落架结构设计方法,实现了优化驱动的设计方法在起落架领域的完整工程应用。结构优化技术作为整个设计流程的驱动者,在其中发挥贯穿全程的主体作用,根据不同设计阶段的需求,先后运用拓扑优化、尺寸优化和形状优化技术。以某型飞机前起落架外筒的设计为例可以发现,相比传统设计方法,新方法在相同的设计约束条件下,能更快得到设计方案,结构质量减少了24.1%,实现了起落架结构的快速设计和轻量化设计。     

直升机复合材料桨叶修理

介绍了某型直升机复合材料桨叶缺陷、损伤的检测方法和复合材料桨叶的修理方法,并叙述了桨叶修理后的试验。     

压力载荷下的结构拓扑-形状协同优化

 压力载荷作用下的结构轻量化设计是工程中的常见问题,由于压力加载面的可设计性,现有以固定载荷为基础的拓扑优化技术不能很好地处理这类问题。直接采用CAD参数化样条或B样条曲线描述压力加载面,通过拓扑和形状变量的联合优化满足了工程实际对结构轻量化与边界的功能性与光滑性设计要求。同时,为了避免结构边界形状变化时有限元网格刷新引起的定义拓扑伪密度变量的困难,用所提出的背景网格和密度点技术实现了每一步单元密度设计迭代结果的自动传递,并采用网格变形技术实现了形状设计变量灵敏度分析。采用4个数值算例验证了方法的有效性,其中发动机承力框架的设计结果充分说明该方法在航空结构设计中的重要应用价值。     

Integrated optimization design of smart morphing wing for accurate shape control

Smart morphing wing, which is equipped with smart materials and able to change structural geometry adaptively, can further improve aerodynamic efficiency of aircraft. This paper presents a new integrated layout and topology optimization design for morphing wing driven by shape memory alloys (SMAs). By simultaneously optimizing the layout of smart actuators and topology of wing substrate, the ultimately determined configuration can achieve smooth, continuous and accurate geometric shape changes. In addition, aerodynamic analysis is carried out to compare smart morphing wing with traditional hinged airfoil. Finally, the optimized smart wing structure is constructed and tested to demonstrate and verify the morphing functionality. Application setbacks are also pointed out for further investigation.     

基于ordered-EAMP模型的多材料传热结构拓扑优化

基于多材料变密度拓扑优化方法提出了一种密度指数函数插值的有序多材料性能近似(or-dered exponential approximation of material properties,ordered-EAMP)模型,数学性质以及算例表明,与传统的SIMP/RAMP插值相比,该模型具有计算稳定,收敛速度快,优化结...     

Shape preserving topology optimization for structural radar cross section control

The purpose of this paper is to present a shape preserving topology optimization method to prevent the adverse effects of the mechanical deformation on the Radar Cross Section(RCS).The optimization will suppress the variation of RCS on the perfect conductor surface by structural design. On the one hand, the physical optics method is utilized to calculate the structural RCS,which is based on the surface displacement field obtained from the finite element analysis of the structure. The correspondi...     

Collaborative optimization design of process parameter and structural topology for laser additive manufacturing

High-resolution laser additive manufacturing (LAM) significantly releases design freedom, promoting the development of topology optimization (TO) and advancing structural design methods. In order to fully take advantage of voxelated forming methods and establish the quantitative relationship between the mechanical properties of printing components and multiple process factors (laser- and process- parameters), the concurrent optimization design method based on LAM should cover the process-performance relationship. This study proposes a novel artificial intelligence-facilitated TO method for LAM to concurrently design microscale material property and macroscale structural topology of 3D components by adopting heuristic and gradient-based algorithms. The process–structure–property relationship of selective laser sintering is established by the back propagation neural network, and it is integrated into the TO algorithm for providing a systematic design scheme of structural topology and process parameter. Compared with the classical optimization method, numerical examples show that this method is able to improve the mechanical performance of the macrostructure significantly. In addition, the collaborative design method is able to be widely applied for complex functional part design and optimization, as well as case studies on artificial intelligence-facilitated product evaluation.     

Layout design of thin-walled structures with lattices and stiffeners using multi-material topology optimization

In this paper, the thin-walled structures with lattices and stiffeners manufactured by additive manufacturing are investigated. A design method based on the multi-material topology optimization is proposed for the simultaneous layout optimization of the lattices and stiffeners in thin-walled structures. First, the representative lattice units of the selected lattices are equivalent to the virtual homogeneous materials whose effective elastic matrixes are achieved by the energy-based homogenization method. Meanwhile, the stiffeners are modelled using the solid material. Subsequently, the multi-material topology optimization formulation is established for both the virtual homogeneous materials and solid material to minimize the structural compliance under mass constraint. Thus, the optimal layout of both the lattices and stiffeners could be simultaneously attained by the optimization procedure. Two applications, the aircraft panel structure and the equipment mounting plate, are dealt with to demonstrate the detailed design procedure and reveal the effect of the proposed method. According to numerical comparisons and experimental results, the thin-walled structures with lattices and stiffeners have significant advantages over the traditional stiffened thin-walled structures and lattice sandwich structures in terms of static, dynamic and anti-instability performance.     

应用ANSYS进行汽车车架结构优化设计的探讨

为了应用ANSYS对结构进行优化设计,总结了ANSYS结构优化设计的数学描述以及模型建立的原则。以汽车车架为研究对象,采用ANSYS构建了其参数化有限元,给出了生成分析文件、定义优化变量以及设置与优化的具体步骤。通过仿真,对纵梁截面尺寸进行了优化设计,并使车架总体积降低了9%。     

基于图形法的仿生拓扑优化方法

针对图形系统自动生成图形拓扑形式的优势,提出了一种以隐式方式表征结构拓扑形式的分步拓扑优化设计方法。该分步优化方法首先以基结构法（ground structure method）的计算结果为基础,并通过均匀化方法得到设计区域内的离散拓扑信息,利用第一步所得的拓扑数据指导分形系统中每一级新增拓扑结构的生长方向,以类似细胞分裂生长的形式完成整体结构拓扑形式生成。最后以参数化建模方式完成模型的结构有限元的批量计算,并结合进化算法,完成对设计模型的优化。其中第一个案例通过本文仿生方法在多目标优化方法下得到了近似Michell结构的最优拓扑结构,第二个方案中机翼蒙皮的屈曲载荷系数提升了10.61%,并且质量降低了10.85%,验证了本文方法在类平面结构拓扑优化方面的可行性。      

Aerodynamic design optimization of helicopter rotor blades including airfoil shape for hover performance

This study proposes a process to obtain an optimal helicopter rotor blade shape for aerodynamic performance in hover flight. A new geometry representation algorithm which uses the class function/shape function transformation (CST) is employed to generate airfoil coordinates. With this approach, airfoil shape is considered in terms of design variables. The optimization process is constructed by integrating several programs developed by author. The design variables include twist, taper ratio, point of taper initiation, blade root chord, and coefficients of the airfoil distribution function. Aerodynamic constraints consist of limits on power available in hover and forward flight. The trim condition must be attainable. This paper considers rotor blade configuration for the hover flight condition only, so that the required power in hover is chosen as the objective function of the optimization problem. Sensitivity analysis of each design variable shows that airfoil shape has an important role in rotor performance. The optimum rotor blade reduces the required hover power by 7.4% and increases the figure of merit by 6.5%, which is a good improvement for rotor blade design.     

Integrated design of topology and material for composite morphing trailing edge based compliant mechanism

The morphing trailing edge based compliant mechanism is a developing technology which can increase lift-drag ratio for variable flight modes by bending down the trailing edge. Composite material design is integrated into topology optimization for the morphing trailing edge based compliant mechanism in the paper. A two-step optimization strategy is established to solve the integrated design problem. Initially, lamination parameters are introduced and viewed as a bridge between structure stiffness and fiber angles for composite material. Design variables include the lamination parameters and element density. The least-squares between actual and desired displacements at output points along trailing edge is adopted to evaluate the deformed capability of the trailing edge. An integrated optimization model for the composite morphing trailing edge is established with the volume constraints. The optimal topologic shape and lamination parameters are initially obtained. Subsequently, a least-squares optimization between fiber angles and the optimal lamination parameters is implemented to obtain optimal fiber angles. Finally, morphing capability of composites trailing edge based compliant mechanism is investigated by simulation and experiments. The results indicate the composites trailing edge based compliant mechanism can approximately bend down 8 degrees and satisfies the design requirement.     

Multiscale topology optimization using feature-driven method

This paper presents a multiscale design method for simultaneous topology optimization of both macrostructures and microstructures. Geometric features are extended as design primitives at both macro and micro scales and represented by Level Set Functions (LSFs). Parameters related to the locations, sizes, and orientations of macro and micro features are considered as design variables and optimized simultaneously. In the overlapping areas of different macro features, embedded microstructures are optimally figured out as the solution of the corresponding sub-optimization problem. In this study, the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is implemented for structural and sensitivity analyses with respect to design variables. This method has the advantage of using a fixed grid independent of the topology optimization process. The homogenization procedure is applied to calculate the effective properties of considered microstructures in each macro feature. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Results depict that the multiscale design cannot obviously improve structural stiffness compared with a solid-material design under the linear elastic condition.