Development and Implementation of a Manufacturing Analysis Methodology for Aircraft Components

In the last ten years, the airlines are demanding lower aircraft prices and fuel consumption. Aircraft manufacturers as well as component and sub-assembly manufacturers are adapting to this situation by optimizing existing aircraft configurations. Traditional design processes, due to their inability to capture multidisciplinarity at the early...

Application of C/PEKK UD Tape for Welded Aircraft Movables: A trade study for a single aisle aircraft rudder

In a strive to further improve the performance of Aircraft movables the performance of Carbon fibre PolyEtherKetoneKetone (C/PEKK) on component level was assessed in this study. In this study 3 concepts were designed for a fictitious Next Signle Aisle aircraft (NSA) rudder to perform a trade-off between the two composite materials and the two...

Assessment of rudder design optimization strategies on a composite rudder

This research presents the development and implementation of a methodology for rudder design optimization using front-loading. The project has been performed in cooperation with Fokker Aerostructure, which tries to keep up with the increasing competitiveness in the aviation industry. To support this goal, the Knowledge based Rudder and Interface...