VERIFICATION OF STRESS AND DISPLACEMENT RESULTS OF AN OPTIMIZED TRUSS

Authors

  • Tarique Samir Bezerra Sena
  • Caio Rodrigues Laranjeira Vilar
  • Richard A. Regueiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/ripe.v2i25.20844

Keywords:

Truss. Stress. Displacement. Finite Element Analysis. Stiffness Method.

Abstract

The paper presented here proposes to verify the mechanical behavior of an optimized simply supported truss with 5 nodes and 6 bars, obtained from a genetic algorithm optimization using population size 450. For the purpose of developing this paper, it was used as reference an optimization already performed in a previous article and its results. In order to perform this ascertainment, we compared the structure's stress and displacement results to those found through the finite element software Abaqus® and an analytical analysis. The first consists of modeling and analyzing the optimized truss using Abaqus® software. This analysis has the objective of confirming the reference paper results through a software that has been used widely by finite element specialists. The second is based on a Matlab® application to develop the stiffness matrix of the optimized structure. The applications ratified that the results obtained in the reference paper are consistent.

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Published

2017-02-10

How to Cite

Sena, T. S. B., Vilar, C. R. L., & Regueiro, R. A. (2017). VERIFICATION OF STRESS AND DISPLACEMENT RESULTS OF AN OPTIMIZED TRUSS. Revista Interdisciplinar De Pesquisa Em Engenharia, 2(25), 59–63. https://doi.org/10.26512/ripe.v2i25.20844