• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.215-225
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• 2016

In recent years, the automotive industry has known a remarkable development in order to satisfy the customer requirements. In this paper, we will study one of the components of the automotive which is the twist beam. The study is focused on the multicriteria design of the automotive twist beam undergoing linear elastic deformation (Hooke's law). Indeed, for the design of this automotive part, there are some criteria to be considered as the rigidity (stiffness) and the resistance to fatigue. Those two criteria are known to be conflicting, therefore, our aim is to identify the Pareto front of this problem. To do this, we used a Normal Boundary Intersection (NBI) algorithm coupling with a radial basis function (RBF) metamodel in order to reduce the high calculation time needed for solving the multicriteria design problem. Otherwise, we used the free form deformation (FFD) technique for the generation of the 3D shapes of the automotive part studied during the optimization process.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.165-175
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• 2015

One of the current challenges in the domain of the multicriteria shape optimization is to reduce the calculation time required by conventional methods. The high computational cost is due to the high number of simulation or function calls required by these methods. Recently, several studies have been led to overcome this problem by integrating a metamodel in the overall optimization loop. In this paper, we perform a coupling between the Normal Boundary Intersection - NBI - algorithm with Radial Basis Function - RBF - metamodel in order to have a simple tool with a reasonable calculation time to solve multicriteria optimization problems. First, we apply our approach to academic test cases. Then, we validate our method against an industrial case, namely, shape optimization of the bottom of an aerosol can undergoing nonlinear elasto-plastic deformation. Then, in order to select solutions among the Pareto efficient ones, we use the same surrogate approach to implement a method to compute Nash and Kalai-Smorodinsky equilibria.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2014

One of the hottest challenges in automotive industry is related to weight reduction in sheet metal forming processes, in order to produce a high quality metal part with minimal material cost. Stamping is the most widely used sheet metal forming process; but its implementation comes with several fabrication flaws such as springback and failure. A global and simple approach to circumvent these unwanted process drawbacks consists in optimizing the initial blank shape with innovative methods. The aim of this paper is to introduce an efficient methodology to deal with complex, computationally expensive multicriteria optimization problems. Our approach is based on the combination of methods to capture the Pareto Front, approximate criteria (to save computational costs) and global optimizers. To illustrate the efficiency, we consider the stamping of an industrial workpiece as test-case. Our approach is applied to the springback and failure criteria. To optimize these two criteria, a global optimization algorithm was chosen. It is the Simulated Annealing algorithm hybridized with the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation in order to gain in time and in precision. The multicriteria problems amounts to the capture of the Pareto Front associated to the two criteria. Normal Boundary Intersection and Normalized Normal Constraint Method are considered for generating a set of Pareto-optimal solutions with the characteristic of uniform distribution of front points. The computational results are compared to those obtained with the well-known Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II. The results show that our proposed approach is efficient to deal with the multicriteria shape optimization of highly non-linear mechanical systems.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2016

본 연구는 절리의 방향분포가 절리성 암반의 수리적 특성에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위하여 등가파이프 연결구조에 기반을 둔 이차원 DFN(discrete fracture network) 유체유동 해석 프로그램 코드를 개발하고 수치실험을 수행하였다. 수치실험에 사용된 이차원 DFN 시스템은 경계효과를 고려하여 $32m{\times}32m$ 영역의 중앙에서 $20m{\times}20m$ 크기의 DFN 블록이다. 두 절리군을 사용하여 절리의 빈도와 길이분포를 고정하고 절리군 선주향의 평균과 표준편차를 달리하며 추계론적으로 생성한 총 15개의 DFN 블록에 대하여 매 $30^{\circ}$ 간격으로 회전하면서 총 12 방향으로 구현한 총 180개 DFN 블록에서 블록수리전도도가 산정되었다. 또한, 각각의 DFN 블록에서 이론적 블록수리전도도, 주 수리전도도텐서 및 평균블록수리전도도를 추정하여 비교분석한 결과, 절리군의 평균 교차각이 작을수록 절리 방향분포의 변동성이 이차원 DFN 시스템의 등가연속체 취급 가능성 및 블록수리전도 특성에 더욱 영향을 미치는 것으로 평가되었다.