Analyzing thermal buckling in curvilinearly stiffened composite plates with arbitrary shaped cutouts using isogeometric level set method

B Devarajan, RK Kapania - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we develop a new simple and effective isogeometric analysis for modeling
thermal buckling of stiffened laminated composite plates with cutouts using level sets. We …

Multidisciplinary optimisation of aircraft structures with critical non-regular areas: current practice and challenges

M Sferza, J Ninić, D Chronopoulos, F Glock, F Daoud - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
The design optimisation of aerostructures is largely based on Multidisciplinary Design
Optimisation (MDO), which is a set of tools used by the aircraft industry to size primary …

Practical self-driving cars: Survey of the state-of-the-art

D Saha, S De - 2022 - preprints.org
Abstract Self-Driving Vehicles or Autonomous Driving (AD) have emerged as the prime field
of research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning of late. The indicated market …

Lightweight chassis design of hybrid trucks considering multiple road conditions and constraints

S De, K Singh, J Seo, RK Kapania… - World Electric Vehicle …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The paper describes a fully automated process to generate a shell-based finite element
model of a large hybrid truck chassis to perform mass optimization considering multiple load …

Free vibration analysis of curvilinearly stiffened composite plates with an arbitrarily shaped cutout using isogeometric analysis

B Devarajan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12856, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper focuses on the isogeometric vibration analysis of curvilinearly stiffened
composite panels. The stiffness matrices and the mass matrices are derived using the first …

Bilevel programming weight minimization of composite flying-wing aircraft with curvilinear spars and ribs

W Zhao, RK Kapania - AIAA Journal, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper studies weight minimization of a composite flying-wing aircraft using bioinspired
arbitrarily shaped spars and ribs, known as SpaRibs, for the internal structural layout design …

Structural optimization of internal structure of aircraft wings with curvilinear spars and ribs

S De, M Jrad, RK Kapania - Journal of aircraft, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
A new framework for optimization of the internal structure of transport aircraft wings having
curvilinear spars and ribs (SpaRibs) is described. SpaRibs are parameterized by third-order …

Distributed Design Optimization of Large Aspect Ratio Wing Aircraft with Rapid Transonic Flutter Analysis in Linux

KH Khan, W Mallik, RK Kapania, JA Schetz - AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-1354. vid This study presents
DELWARX, a Python based framework, in a distributed computing environment for …

Unconventional truck chassis design with multi-functional cross members

S De, K Singh, J Seo, R Kapania, R Aguero… - 2019 - sae.org
An unconventional conceptual design of truck chassis with multi-functional cross-members
is proposed, and an optimization framework is developed to optimize its structure to …

Structural design and optimization of commercial vehicles chassis under multiple load cases and constraints

S De, K Singh, J Seo, RK Kapania… - AIAA Scitech 2019 …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
The paper describes a fully automatic process to generate a medium-fidelity finite element
model of a large commercial truck chassis and perform mass optimization considering …