A study on the application of material selection optimization approach for structural-acoustic optimization

Issues of application of the material selection optimization approach for structural-acoustic optimization is investigated herein. By introducing the stacking sequence hypothesis of metal material, the mechanical properties parameters and plies’ numbers of the metal material or composite material are defined as design variables; the mathematical formulation about material selection optimization approach is established. Finally, a hexahedral box structure is taken as an example, and the material selection optimization is conducted. By introducing genetic algorithm (GA), the optimization problem is solved. The numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed stacking sequence hypothesis of metal material.