Vol.24, No.1, 2024, pp. 124–127
UDC:

THREE-PARAMETER OPTIMISATION OF AN ATTACHMENT LUG

Aleksandar Grbović1*, Abdussalam Yousef Solob1, Simon Sedmak2, Aleksandar Sedmak1, Željko Božić3

1) University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, SERBIA

*email: agrbovic@mas.bg.ac.rs

2) University of Belgrade, Innovation Centre of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, SERBIA

3) University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Zagreb, CROATIA

 

Abstract

Three-parameter optimisation of a wing-fuselage attachment lug was applied to its thickness, rounding radius, and radius of pin hole, using the fatigue life and mass as criteria. Numerical simulation of fatigue crack growth by finite element method (FEM) and Separating Morphing and Adaptive Remeshing Technology (SMART) was used to evaluate the number of cycles up to critical crack length.

Keywords: attachment lug, finite element method, SMART, fatigue crack growth

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