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  • Master Thesis
    Design of Cnt Fiber Reinforced Laminates for Minimum Weight
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2024) Karaosmanoğlu, Burhan Burak; Artem, Hatice Seçil
    Kompozit malzemeler günümüzde üretim ve uygulamalardaki yüksek işlevsellikleri nedeniyle birçok alanda yer bulmaktadır. Özellikle, yüksek performans özellikleri kazandırmak amacıyla kompozit güçlendirme malzemesi olarak Karbon Nanotüplerin (CNT) kullanımına olan ilgi giderek artmaktadır. Bu tezde 16 katmanlı, simetrik ve dengeli CNT-fiber takviyeli kompozit laminalar minimum ağırlık tasarımı için incelenmiştir. Yenilik olarak, klasik lamina teorisi dahilinde tanımlanan burkulma problemi bağlamında iki farklı minimum ağırlık tasarım yaklaşımı iki farklı problem altında sunulmuş ve karşılaştırılmıştır. Karşılaştırma kritik burkulma yükü faktörünün ağırlığa oranı şeklinde tanımlanan dizayn verimliği kriteri üzerinden yapılmıştır. Tek ve çok amaçlı genetik algoritmalar kullanılmış; ayrıca tam sayı problemlerine uyarlanmış önerilen bir benzetilmiş tavlama algoritması da test edilmiştir. CNT'lere ek olarak epoksi matris, cam fiber malzemelerinden oluşan laminanın etkin malzeme özellikleri fiber mikromekanik ve Halpin-Tsai modelleri kullanılarak belirlenmiştir. İlk problemde, kritik burkulma yükü faktörünün maksimize edilmesi için çözüme geçmeden önce her bir katmanda CNT ve fiber içerikleri fonksiyonel olarak dağıtılmış, tam sayı fiber açıları ise tasarım değişkenleri olarak alınmıştır. İkinci problemde, kritik burkulma yükü faktörü ve ağırlık çok amaçlı optimizasyon olarak ele alınmış, CNT'lerin ağırlık oranı, fiberlerin hacim oranı ve tam sayı fiber açıları tasarım değişkenleri olarak kullanılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, CNT'lerin ve fiberlerin dağılımının tasarım etkinliğini nasıl etkilediği gösterilmiş ve çok amaçlı optimizasyon yaklaşımın tek amaçlı alternatife kıyasla daha yüksek tasarım verimliliği sağladığı ortaya konulmuştur.
  • Master Thesis
    Stacking Sequences Optimization of Laminated Composites for Maximum Buckling Strength by Stochastic Search Methods
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Adabaşı, Gökay; Artem, Hatice Seçil
    Based on materials developed and made available by humans, there are materials that will serve their purpose. Using lighter materials, especially in the field of aviation and space, significantly reduces the costs. However, lightness is not the only feature required in materials. In addition, the physical and mechanical properties of the materials must be at the desired level. Knowing the buckling load capacity of composite materials, which are widely used, is also very important in determining the material properties. Accordingly, an important focus of this thesis is to examine the behavior of different materials against the same loading; the other is to examine the increase in the critical buckling load factor although they have the same geometric structure. Critical buckling load factor is considered when performing the buckling analysis. The mechanical behavior of composite materials used by considering the factors of critical buckling load factor has been investigated and discussed. Different optimization methods have been used while making the optimum design of different composite materials with 48 and 64 layers in total. The verification of mechanical properties of materials was made with the help of coding. Subsequently, the referenced articles were verified to prove the accuracy of this code. Optimization was carried out by using material properties information from reference articles and verifying the code. As a result, considering the buckling strength of different layered composite materials, it has been found that the optimum designs depend on the load, load ratio, and plate aspect ratio.
  • Master Thesis
    Stacking Sequence Optimization and Modeling of Laminated Composite Plates for Free Vibration
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Hasanoğlu, Emre Azim; Artem, Hatice Seçil
    Composite materials, especially fiber reinforced composites, have been extensively used in various engineering fields such as automotive, aerospace, aircrafts, defense, marine and so on due to having their high specific strength to weight and stiffness to weight ratios. In these last years, vibration problem has become more and more important in the structures where thin plates are used. Therefore, free vibration characteristics of composite structures under the influence of dynamic forces should be determined in the design process. Accordingly, in this thesis, optimum designs, which maximize the natural frequencies of laminated composite plate, are investigated by using hybrid algorithm combining the genetic algorithm (GA) and generalized pattern search algorihm (GPSA). Composite plates made of graphite/epoxy have been considered and assumed to be symmetric with continuous fiber angles in the laminate sequences. The natural frequency of plates is obtained bu using the Rayleigh Ritz method analytically. Free vibration equation is taken as objective function and fiber orientation angles are chosen as design variables. The natural frequency is maximized for various boundary conditions, aspect ratios, number of ply and material properties. The optimum designs obtained are verified by finite element method, and mode shapes of laminated composite plates are presented. A comparison between continuous and conventional (laminate in which the orientation angles are limited to the conventional orientations) designs is performed in order to show the reliability of continuous plates. As a results, it is observed that material properties, boundary conditions and dimensions of composite plates play important role on vibration behavior of composite plates. On the other hand, the natural frequencies and the optimum fiber oriantation angles are not affected from the change of number of plies.
  • Master Thesis
    Minimum Weight Design of Carbon/Epoxy Laminated Composites for Maximum Buckling Load Using Simulated Annealing Algorithm
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2014) Gülmez, Erkut; Artem, Hatice Seçil
    Composite materials have been mostly used in engineering applications such as aerospace, automotive, sports equipment, marine because of their high specific strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios. Weight reduction and buckling load capacity are critical issue for the engineering application. Accordingly, in this thesis, identification of optimum fiber orientations and laminate thicknesses of the composite plates resisting to buckling under given loading conditions and aspect ratios are investigated. Furthermore, a comparison study on continuous and conventional designs is performed to determine the effect of stacking sequence on weight. Symmetric and balanced N-layered carbon/epoxy composite plates are considered for optimization process. Critical buckling load factor is taken as objective function and fiber orientations which are considered continuous are taken as design variables. Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is specialized by using fmincon as hybrid function and this optimization method is used to obtain the optimum designs. Maximum critical buckling load factor and minimum thickness and hence minimum weight are achieved and shown in tables. As a result, it is observed that loading conditions and plate dimensions play an important role on stacking sequence optimization of lightweight composite laminates for maximum buckling load capacity.
  • Master Thesis
    Stacking Sequence Optimization of the Anti-Buckled Graphite/Epoxy Laminated Composites for Minimum Weight Using Generalized Pattern Search Algorithm
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2014) Boyacı, Hakan; Artem, Hatice Seçil; Artem, Hatice Seçil
    Composite materials have been increasingly used during the last decades due to their properties such as low weight, high stiffness, superior fatigue and corrosion resistance. They have been used in aerospace, automobile, marine applications and etc. Composite materials being an expensive but efficient technology to get minimum weight structures, it is logical to make an attempt to find out how to design properly optimum laminated composite plates with no reduction in their strength. The aim of the thesis is to find the optimum stacking sequence to obtain the minimum thickness (weight) of laminated composite plates in different loadings and plate dimensions under buckling constraint. Moreover, a comparison study of conventional and continuous designs are performed to determine the effect of stacking sequence on weight. The objective function is the critical buckling load factor. Fiber angles of the composite plates are taken as continuous design variables and the plate is assumed to be balance and symmetric. Composite plates made of graphite/epoxy have been considered in this thesis. A combination of Generalized Pattern Search Algorithm (GPSA) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been considered as an optimization method. All the results show that the loading conditions and dimensions of composite plates are significant in stacking sequences optimization of laminated composite materials in terms of maximum critical buckling load factor and minimum thickness.
  • Master Thesis
    Stacking Sequences Optimization of the Anti-Buckled Laminated Composites Considering Various Failure Criteria
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2011) Söyleyici, Mehmet Umut; Artem, Hatice Seçil
    In recent years, fiber-reinforced composite materials have been mostly used in engineering applications due to advantage of the ratio of strength to weight. Fiberreinforced laminated composites with an optimum stacking sequences have become critical issue especially for defence and automotive industry. In this study, stacking sequences optimization of laminated composites for maximum buckling load factor has been investigated using genetic algorithm (GA). Symmetrical and balanced laminated composite plates with 48 layers graphite/epoxy are considered for optimization process. The designs of composite plates have been investigated for various in-plane loadings and aspect ratios. Fiber orientation angles are chosen as design variables. The optimum designs obtained have been controlled by Tsai-Wu and maximum stress failure criteria. Furthermore, dispersed designs for specific cases have been converted to conventional designs and the advantages and disadvantages of various designs have been examined in terms of buckling resistance. Finally, buckling behaviors of 48- and 64-layered composite plates have been studied under overloaded conditions. In design process, the increase in the reliability of the optimization has been provided independently using a variety of genetic algorithm parameters. All the results have shown that the loading conditions and dimensions of composite plates are significant in stacking sequences optimization of laminated composite materials in terms of maximum critical buckling load factor. Furthermore, it has been seen that the fiber orientation angles determine which failure modes (buckling or static failure criteria) are critical.