Lightweight Designs and Improving the Load-Bearing Capacity of Structures by the Method of Aggregation

Autor: Michael Todinov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Mathematics, Vol 12, Iss 10, p 1522 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-7390
DOI: 10.3390/math12101522
Popis: The paper introduces a powerful method for developing lightweight designs and enhancing the load-bearing capacity of common structures. The method, referred to as the ‘method of aggregation’, has been derived from reverse engineering of sub-additive and super-additive algebraic inequalities. The essence of the proposed method is consolidating multiple elements loaded in bending into a reduced number of elements with larger cross sections but a smaller total volume of material. This procedure yields a huge reduction in material usage and is the first major contribution of the paper. For instance, when aggregating eight load-carrying beams into two beams supporting the same total load, the material reduction was more than 1.58 times. The second major contribution of the paper is in demonstrating that consolidating multiple elements loaded in bending into a reduced number of elements with larger cross sections but the same total volume of material leads to a big increase in the load-bearing capacity of the structure. For instance, when aggregating eight cantilevered or simply supported beams into two beams with the same volume of material, the load-bearing capacity until a specified tensile stress increased twice. At the same time, the load-bearing capacity until a specified deflection increased four times.
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