HE Guanqiang, LIU Yongjiang, LI Hua, et al. Structural strength analysis and optimization of converter lug based on Kriging model. [J]. Electric drive for locomotives (4):104-110(2022)
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HE Guanqiang, LIU Yongjiang, LI Hua, et al. Structural strength analysis and optimization of converter lug based on Kriging model. [J]. Electric drive for locomotives (4):104-110(2022) DOI: 10.13890/j.issn.1000-128X.2022.04.015.
Structural strength analysis and optimization of converter lug based on Kriging model
The structural analysis of rail transit converters installed under the vehicle often involves time-consuming computer simulations to evaluate the strength of the structure for safety requirements. For typical rail transit converters
each static strength analysis with four working conditions costs at least 1 hour
and each random vibration analysis with one axis costs more than 8 hours. As a result
for using traditional engineering optimization methods to optimize the converter structure
the optimization efficiency will be severely limited
since these methods need to invoke a large amount of simulations as function evaluations. In this paper
machine learning methods were considered to approximate the functional relationships between design variables and responses. Specifically
the Latin Hypercube Sampling method was used to generate the samples and build Kriging surrogate models (also known as Gaussian Processes). With the information provided by the Kriging models
the sensitivity analysis
design space exploration and global optimization processes can all be facilitated so that the designers can avoid low safety allowance and over-redundant designs while the design circle is also shortened. A complete technical route of Kriging-based analysis and optimization was provided in this paper
and the key steps (design of experiments
surrogate model
adaptive sampling
sensitivity analysis
design space exploration
global optimization
etc.) were described in detail. Finally
the proposed technical route has been verified the validity by the analysis and optimization of a traction converter lug structure.
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