Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2016, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (4): 31-35.

• BASIC STUDY • Previous Articles     Next Articles

LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION OF COMPOSITE UAV WING STRUCTURE BASEDON TWO-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION METHOD

LIU Bo, LU Zhen-yu*, YUAN Dong-ming, MA Jing-wei   

  1. Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130033, China
  • Received:2015-11-27 Online:2016-04-28 Published:2016-04-28

Abstract: In order to reduce the weight of wing structure of composite unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), a method of two-level optimization which uses MSC.PATRAN and MSC.NASTRAN is proposed in this paper. In the first level, a response surface method is used to optimize the location of the longitudinal wing spars. In the second level, a genetic algorithm is used to optimize the lay parameter of wing structure. As an example, a layout optimization of one type of high aspect-ratio wing structure is calculated. The result shows that about 25% weight of wing structure is reduced. It can be concluded that the two-level optimization method can significantly reduce the wing structure weight, which can satisfy the design requirements.

Key words: composite, UAV, wing, two-level optimization, response surface, genetic algorithm

CLC Number: