Design Optimization Of Composite Wood Sandwiched Submersible Pressure Hulls

Hafiz Muhammad  Waqas; Dongyan  Shi; Muhammad  Imran; Sohaib Z  Khan; Elsayed  Fathallah; Mahmoud  Helal

doi:10.6180/jase.202309_26(9).0010

Design Optimization Of Composite Wood Sandwiched Submersible Pressure Hulls

Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Hafiz Muhammad Waqas ¹, Dongyan Shi ¹, Muhammad Imran¹, Sohaib Z Khan², Elsayed Fathallah³, and Mahmoud Helal^4,5

¹College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China
²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah 41411, Saudi Arabia
³Civil Engineering Department, MTC Kobry Elkobba, Egypt Ships and Submarines Engineering Department, Military Technical College, Cairo 11787, Egypt
⁴Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Taif University, Box P.O 1109, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
⁵Production and Mechanical Design Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt

Received: July 9, 2022
Accepted: October 17, 2022
Publication Date: December 14, 2022

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The main purpose of this research was to use wood as a core material of composite sandwiched submersible pressure hulls to reduce weight and increase stability under hydrostatic pressure. This task presents design optimization for a submersible pressure hull by means of Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Different composite materials were implemented, and various kinds of woods were consumed as a core. Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used to conduct the optimization process. The ply layer numbers and core thickness, for pressure hulls have been optimized for the configuration of [0l/90m/0n/0c/0o/90p/0q]. The objective function was to decrease the buoyancy factor and to increase the buckling factor. The material failure criteria, and buckling factor were selected as constraints for the optimization process. A comparison was made between the steel pressure hull and promising results were achieved comparatively in favor of using composite material with the combination of wood core.

Keywords: Sandwich Structures; Submersible pressure hulls; Parametric analysis, Optimization, Genetic Algorithm

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