Refined Honeycomb Structure Based on Voronoi Tessellation for Wing Reinforcement
摘要
The reinforcement of wings plays a critical role in aviation design, impacting safety and the overall weight reduction of aircraft wings. This paper shows three distinct methods for reinforcing the aircraft wings: a conventional two-spar method, honeycomb panels, and a refined honeycomb structure based on Voronoi tessellation method. Voronoi diagrams are fundamental geometric structures widely applied for diverse applications in mechanical engineering. To construct the refined Voronoi diagram, an initial regular hexagonal Voronoi diagram is generated around a cloud of points called Voronoi site points. Next, this cloud of points serves as the base for the refined Voronoi diagram by converting the Voronoi vertex points into new site points in areas where stress concentration occurs. The effect of each strategy, including the two-spar method, honeycomb panels, and a refined honeycomb structure based on the Voronoi tessellation method, is investigated concerning structural robustness and weight saving. Remarkably, the refined honeycomb method registers the lowest stress, designating that the designed wing using this method is stiffener compared to alternative methods.