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Şen, I. (author)The strong search for lightweight materials has become a trend in the aerospace industry. Aircraft manufacturers are responding to this trend and new aerospace materials are introduced to build lighter aircrafts. However material manufacturers, like Tata Steel, are unfamiliar with the determination of running loads and the behavior of materials...master thesis 2010
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Schmidt, R.K. (author)Research in aircraft design is focusing on novel aircraft configurations in search for a step change in terms of overall transport efficiency. Aircraft design relies heavily on empirical methods, so-called Class 2 methods, to evaluate the performance of a design. Since these methods are based on statistical data their validity is limited when...master thesis 2013
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Elmendorp, R.J.M. (author)In the last 60 years many new technologies have entered the aerospace industry, but the overall aircraft design remained virtually unchanged. If we compare an aircraft built in the 1960's with the latest generation, they look strikingly similar. Only small evolutionary changes entered the commercial aircraft market. A lot of these changes are...master thesis 2014
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Heerens, N.C. (author)The design of the landing gear is one of the prime aspects of aircraft design. Literature describes the design process thoroughly, however the integration of these design methods within an automated design framework has had little focus in literature. Landing gear design includes different engineering disciplines including structures, weights,...master thesis 2014
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Vasseur, P.T. (author)Due to the ever growing demand for more efficient aircraft novel aircraft concepts have to be explored. By improving design tools the potential of unconventional configurations can be further studied. This requires improvement of conceptual design tools such that more knowledge can be gathered on alternative solutions as early in the design...master thesis 2014
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De Gelder, V. (author)Fokker Aerostructures is a world leading specialist in the application thermoplastic carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) material on control surfaces of business jets. They want to know if they can expand their business towards large commercial aircraft. First, an aircraft is chosen to function as platform for the design phase. Multiple...master thesis 2015
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Baan, Y.M. (author)Considering the fact that all large commercial aircraft have not changed significantly in their tube–and–wing shape during the past few decades, one would suggest that a completely different configuration is necessary to facilitate a new leap forward in aircraft performance. The blended–wing–body is potentially such an alternative configuration....master thesis 2015
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Mulder, A. (author)In the past decades a clear transition can be seen from fully human-based production techniques towards more automated systems. With the Product Development Process (PDP) being a potential source of competitive advantage the same trend of adopting more automation can be seen in the PDP. The application of automation can lead to large reductions...master thesis 2015
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Ramakers, M.A.Y. (author)The aircraft industry has seen many evolutionary changes in the past decades. Since the Boeing 707 however, the general shape and configuration of transport aircraft have remained similar and so has the aircraft design process. Since the aviation community is about to face a revolutionary breakthrough featuring new aircraft concepts like blended...master thesis 2015
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Higgs, T.A.C. (author)For the past decades concerns over the effect of aviation on the local air quality have risen, with mitigation remaining a priority for industry. To meet the CO2 reduction goal of 75% compared to 2005 levels, set out by the European Commission report 'Flightpath 2050', more assessment on future aircraft technologies and their potential in...master thesis 2015
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Bouquet, T. (author)As the aviation industry continues to strive for improvements in fuel efficiency throughout the entire aircraft design, interest has been renewed in propeller engines. New research into advanced turboprop engines, so-called open rotor engines, seems promising as they combine the inherent high propulsive efficiency of ordinary turboprop engines,...master thesis 2016
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Zohlandt, C.N. (author)The increasing airtraffic demands on aircraft capacity, sustainability and profitability, require the investigation of unconventional aircraft configurations with high aerodynamic efficiency, as the commonly applied fuselage-wing-tail configuration shows to reach an optimum in that respect which cannot be further improved using current...master thesis 2016
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de Jonge, R.L.A. (author)The department of Flight Performance and Propulsion at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has developed the Design and Engineering Engine (DEE) concept to supportMultidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) of complex products. The goal of the DEE is to accelerate design, analysis and optimization by automating repetitive and non-creative...master thesis 2017
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Van den Dungen, N.H.M. (author)A study is done to investigate the feasibility of the conceptual design of the Delft University Unconventional Configuration (DUUC), an aircraft featuring a ducted-fan propulsive empennage. This research is focused on ducted-fan performance analysis and aircraft longitudinal static stability and balance estimation. The aircraft design Initiator...master thesis 2017
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Rao, Nithin (author)Aircraft design methodologies have been significantly developing from the past few years with the advancements in knowledge based techniques. These methods enable the storage of design knowledge and rules, and reuse them to create different types of designs, thus preventing the designer to perform repetitive tasks. Tasks such as parametric...master thesis 2017
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Bussemaker, Jasper (author)Improving the performance of large transport aircraft requires high aspect ratio and lightweight wings, making aeroelasticity an important factor in wing structural design. Active control of aeroelastic loads can be used to improve the aeroelastic behavior of the wing.<br/><br/>Two active load control techniques are considered: Maneuver Load...master thesis 2018
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Schouten, Tom (author)Designers are motivated to create more a efficient aircraft design following the growth of the market and environmental restrictions. As a result new interest in propeller-powered aircraft as such engines show higher theoretical propulsive efficiency as compared to turbofan engines. <br/><br/>The employment of turboprop engines on commercial...master thesis 2018
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Mulder, Halbe (author)To allow the incorporation of engine design in the Aircraft Initiator conceptual design tool, a modular engine design and performance estimation tool has been created, which is intended to allow the study of the effects of changes to engine architecture on the complete aircraft design. It generates estimates for engine thrust, specific fuel...master thesis 2018
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Koopman, Thomas (author)The aviation sector and its associated activities contribute to climate change, damage to the environment, community noise, and local air pollution. As a consequence it affects the health and quality of life of citizens that live close to airports, and through climate change every person on earth. To reduce the impact of air travel and thereby...master thesis 2018