Material properties updating of honeycomb sandwich plates using a global optimization technique based on response surface model

Honeycomb sandwich plates are used widely in the aerospace industry. Building accurate finite element models of honeycomb sandwich plates is necessary for analyzing and optimizing the microvibration that occurs in spacecraft. A finite element dynamic model of a honeycomb plate was built, and then by using orthogonal design of experimental computation, the most important material parameters of honeycomb core equivalent model were identified. Through the global optimization based on adaptive sampling guided by response surface model, the parameters of honeycomb core were updated efficiently. The average error of first six modal frequencies of the updated finite element model against experimental result is reduced to less than 1%.