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Aircraft design is set to become ever more challenging in future, as development budgets shrink a... more Aircraft design is set to become ever more challenging in future, as development budgets shrink and time schedules of new projects are compressed. At the same time, the technical complexity of designing a new aircraft is increasing or remains at least as difficult as before. In other words, the complex technical tasks of airframe development must be accomplished with significantly reduced manpower and within shorter time frames. Traditional design methods, that iterate manually between loads calculations and sizing of structural members may no longer converge quickly enough for shortened development times or fail to meet the design and performance requirements. The answer to these challenges identified at Cassidian is to take advantage of Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation Methods in the conceptual and preliminary design phases. The loads calculation and structural sizing are tightly integrated and combined with appropriate design criteria models in order to simultaneously consider the full set of design driving requirements within the optimization process.
Aircraft design is set to become ever more challenging in future, as development budgets shrink a... more Aircraft design is set to become ever more challenging in future, as development budgets shrink and time schedules of new projects are compressed. At the same time, the technical complexity of designing a new aircraft is increasing or remains at least as difficult as before. In other words, the complex technical tasks of airframe development must be accomplished with significantly reduced manpower and within shorter time frames. Traditional design methods, that iterate manually between loads calculations and sizing of structural members may no longer converge quickly enough for shortened development times or fail to meet the design and performance requirements. The answer to these challenges identified at Cassidian is to take advantage of Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation Methods in the conceptual and preliminary design phases. The loads calculation and structural sizing are tightly integrated and combined with appropriate design criteria models in order to simultaneously consider the full set of design driving requirements within the optimization process.