What is it about?
Aircraft design is a highly complex process that involves a multitude of analyses and challenges. The aircraft must be able to withstand the various forces it will encounter during flight, including aerodynamic and aero-elastic loads, inertia loads and vibrations The objective of this paper is to describe a novel approach to bringing design & stress analysis using design calculations together in one integrated high fidelity design & CAE tool.
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Why is it important?
The tediousness of structural engineering for aircraft is due to first, the design not being set up for CAE, making trade-off studies cumbersome and second, the inability to communicate and propagate design changes efficiently and effectively to CAE. On top of that disconnected tools require manual extraction of data to make the process work and lead to time-consuming and error prone manual reporting.
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This page is a summary of: Integrated Structural Design and Analysis Applied to a Large Surveillance Drone, January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2025-0440.
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