Fast cylinder variable-stiffness design by using Kriging-based hybrid aggressive space mapping method

In this study, a surrogate assisted hybrid aggressive space mapping method is suggested to optimize buckling loads of cylinder variable stiffness composites made by fiber steering. Compared with other popular space mapping algorithms, both of surrogate and coarse FE model are integrated to obtain the coarse FE model-based solution. Moreover, the accuracy of surrogate can be enhanced by the sample points evaluated by the fine FE model. Therefore, the suggested method is easy to converge. After optimization by using the suggested algorithm, the buckling load of the variable stiffness cylinder optimized by the method has 43.12% improvement than the constant stiffness cylinder and 32.12% improvement than the quasi-isotropic cylinder, respectively. Therefore, it suggests that the suggested method has potential capability to handle complicated design for composites and can be extended to other complicated disciplines.