Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2007, Vol. 196 ›› Issue (6): 14-17.

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PLY STACKING-SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION OF COMPOSITE LAMINATE PLATES BY ANT COLONY SYSTEM

  

  • Online:2007-11-28 Published:2007-06-25

Abstract:

An ant colony system is applied to solve the optimization problem of ply stacking-sequence of composite laminate plates with given plies.Firstly,the paper transforms the optimization problem of ply stacking-sequence to the traveling salesman problem(TSP) by integer coding and decoding,which was used in genetic algorithm(GA).Secondly,the ant colony system is modified to improve the performance and the efficiency as to meet the engineering requirements.The results of the examples indicate that the method proposed in this paper is effective,efficient and could be easily applied to other engineerings with little modification.

Key words: ant colony system, composite laminate plate, ply stacking-sequence, optimization