Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles

G Corrado, G Ntourmas, M Sferza, N Traiforos… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2022 - Elsevier
Designing an airframe is a complex process as it requires knowledge from multiple
disciplines such as aerodynamics, structural mechanics, manufacturing, flight dynamics …

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 …

Shape optimization of streamlined decks of cable-stayed bridges considering aeroelastic and structural constraints

MC Montoya, S Hernández, F Nieto - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Structural optimization techniques have the potential to become a powerful tool in the design
of long-span bridges. The search for more efficient and reliable designs involves …

Non-Conventional Wing Structure Design with Lattice Infilled through Design for Additive Manufacturing

N Khan, V Acanfora, A Riccio - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Lightweight structures with a high stiffness-to-weight ratio always play a significant role in
weight reduction in the aerospace sector. The exploration of non-conventional structures for …

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 …

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 …

Global-local aeroelastic optimization of internal structure of transport aircraft wing

M Jrad, S De, RK Kapania - 18th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
Abstract The SpaRibs (Spars and Ribs) topology has a significant effect on the structural
strength and stability as well as the flutter performance of aircraft wings. Although it is …

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 …

Sparibs geometry parameterization for wings with multiple sections using single design space

S De, M Jrad, D Locatelli, RK Kapania… - 58th AIAA/ASCE/AHS …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
The development of additive manufacturing techniques like Electron Beam Free Form
Fabrication (EBF3) has made it feasible to manufacture aircraft wings with curvilinear spars …