25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-4.10.3

OPTIMIZATION OF COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT PANELS USING EFFICIENCY ENHANCED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS

P. Kaletta, K. Wolf*, D. Hachenberg
Airbus, Germany; *TU Dresden, Germany

Keywords: structural optimisation, composites, evolutionary algorithms, parameter adjustment, approximated evaluation

Evolutionary Algorithms are powerful optimization tools for the minimum weight design of composite aircraft structures. A drawback of probabilistic methods is the large number of evaluated designs. Newly developed methods reduce the computational effort considerably. The enhanced efficiency of these algorithms is shown by examples (fuselage panels etc.).

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