Shape Optimization of Pressure Vessel Head Based on the Super-ellipse Equation

• 作 者: Yi-Ming Zhou Bo Wang Geng-Dong
• 机 构: StateKeyLaboratoryofStructuralAnalysisforIndustrialEquipment
• 出 处: 哈尔滨工业大学学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2013年4期
• 基金项目: Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 91216201,11128205 ）, the National Program on Key Basic Research Project （Grant No. 2011 CB610304 ）and the Fundamental Research

This paper studies optimal shape design of pressure vessel head subject to internal uniform pressure.The optimization aims at minimizing its maximum stress while the volume of the vessel head remains no less than the standard ellipsoidal head.Super-ellips