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Optimization of plastic spherical shells of von Mises material

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An optimization procedure is developed for spherical shells pierced with a central hole. The outer edge of the shell is simply supported whereas the inner edge is absolutely free. The material of the shell is assumed to be an ideal plastic material obeying the von Mises yield condition. Resorting to the lower bound theorem of limit analysis, shells with constant and piece-wise constant thickness are considered. The designs of spherical shells corresponding to maximal load carrying capacity are established for a given weight. Necessary optimality conditions are derived with the aid of variational methods from the theory of optimal control. The obtained set of equations is solved numerically.

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Lellep, J., Tungel, E. Optimization of plastic spherical shells of von Mises material. Struct Multidisc Optim 30, 381–387 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-004-0449-1

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