Thèse soutenue

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Auteur / Autrice : Moo Sun Kim
Direction : Alain VautrinWoo Il LeeWoo-Suck Han
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Mécanique et ingéniérie
Date : Soutenance en 2007
Etablissement(s) : Saint-Etienne, EMSE

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In this study, optimization of mechanical properties of a composite material product manufactured by compression molding process was performed by considering the changes of fiber states. Fiber states, which changes by the compression molding process, are fiber volume fraction and fiber orientation. These fiber states lose their initial properties and show non-homogeneous and anisotropic properties due to the pressure and velocity field generated during compression process. To predict the fiber states changes during the compression molding process, fiber separation phenomenon and orientation were numerically considered by coupling them with flow analysis computed by CVFEM. Based on the fiber states information, the mechanical properties of chopped fiber composite were computed. Then they were applied to the plate type structure analysis. In the gross, numerical analysis of process and structure were coupled. In addition, the optimization of structural design and process condition was performed. Structural thickness and precharge location and dimension were considered as the design variables. At first, the Complex method was implemented for thickness optimization. The optimization results of two cases, where the compression process was considered in one case and homogeneous and isotropic material were considered in the other, are compared. To resolve the precharge location and dimension optimization problem, genetic algorithm was implemented. The constraints of design vectors and the characteristic of optimization problem divide search space into feasible search space and unfeasible search space. To handle the constraints of optimization problem, the penalty function method and modified repair algorithm were applied. By applying them to the test function, optimization procedures for these two methods were compared. The suggested techniques were applied to symmetric rectangular plate, car-hood type structure and arbitrary and asymmetric shape structure and the optimization results were compared.