25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-4.10.5

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A NEW DESIGN TOOL FOR AEROSPACE STRUCTURES

R. Degenhardt, J. Wilhelmi*, A. Grünwald*
DLR, Germany; *Airbus, Germany

Keywords: Optimization, design tool, aerospace structures, postbuckling

The Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems of DLR developed in co-operation with Airbus Germany a new design tool for lightweight aerospace structures with the objective to reduce structural weight. This design tool was applied on one Airbus-A340 section and showed a possible skin-weight reduction of 14.8%.

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