27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-1.4.2

AIRCRAFT MISSION AND SYSTEM FAILURE CONSIDERATIONS FOR FUNCTIONAL INDUCTION BASED CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

M. J. Armstrong, E. Garcia, D. Mavris
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Keywords: requirements emergence, performance degradation, load shedding

Highly modular architecting constructs require a means for managing architecture failure modes and generating requirements for critical sizing scenarios. These scenarios often include element failure modes. Functional induction provides a promising means by which conceptual designers can explore operational requirements and criticality, and frame system level component design trades.

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