Methodological Support for Knowledge Based Engineering Application Development: Improving Traceability of Knowledge into Application Code

Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) applications mainly reduce the lead-time in engineering design projects by translating product and process knowledge into application code. The problem with KBE applications is that they produce an output from some input, but it is unclear how it came to its conclusions. There are existing KBE methodologies such...

Adaptive Incremental Nonlinear Control Allocation for the Innovative Control Effectors Aircraft

In this paper an adaptive version of the incremental nonlinear control allocation (INCA), which is able to account for sudden changes in the aerodynamic configuration of an aircraft, is investigated. The controller is designed for the highly maneuverable and tailless innovative control effectors (ICE) aircraft, which has a control suite of 13...

An Integrated Planning Approach: Maintenance Task Scheduling Optimization

Aircraft base maintenance consists of hundreds of tasks including preventive, corrective and modification tasks which have to be scheduled to a few check moments per year. The allocation of tasks to checks represents a complex scheduling problem due to the constraints involved. A mixed integer linear programming model was developed to optimize...

Automated Execution Process Formulation using Sequencing and Decomposition Algorithms for Collaborative MDAO

With Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) a fully automated aircraft design analysis is set up and optimization algorithms are used to obtain better designs by balancing the synergy between components. In the EU project AGILE, a new methodology and framework were developed to make the MDAO approach more accessible to...

Determination of Fatigue Assessment of Monopile - Based Offshore Wind Turbines through Fidelity Quantification

The application of stability checks in simulated offshore wind structures is performed through tools that are established in the offshore wind industry. In particular, the structure should fulfill certain strength and fatigue criteria among which Fatigue Limit States (FLSs) checks are critical. In terms of the process, fatigue assessment can be...