26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS2008-7.11 ST1:

SIZE OPTIMIZATION OF AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES

S. Hernandez, A. Baldomir, J. Mendez
Univ. of Coruna, Spain

Keywords: Optimum design, size optimization, aircraft structures, large structural models

Design optimization is a methodology mature for consideration in aircraft engineering. In this paper an application to a model representing the rear part of a commercial aircraft is described. Two size optimization problems were studied considering different set of design variables and constraint aiming to minimize the volume of material.

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