Technical University of Cracow, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, Poland
Abstract:
Annular plates of fixed volume, under uniform radial edge compression are considered. The plate is divided into N segments of linearly variable or constant thickness. Geometrical constrains for the segment thickness and for the effective stress are assumed. Two types of objective functions are explored: (I) maximum value of critical load at the fixed number of circumferential buckling half-waves j, (II) unimodal optimum design for such a number j that buckling load equals max
