Advise, Formalize and Integrate MDO Architectures: A Methodology and Implementation

Automatic 3D Routing for the Physical Design of Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems for Aircraft

Harness 3D routing is one of the most challenging steps in the design of aircraft Electrical Wiring Interconnection System (EWIS), due to the intrinsic complexity of the EWIS, the increasing number of applying design constraints, and its dependency on the design changes of the airframe and installed systems. The current routing process employed...

An Integrated Knowledge Based Engineering Mechatronics Modeling Approach to Support the Design of Unstable and Unmanned Aircraft

The commercial transport aircraft industry is currently developing new “more electric aircraft” (MEA) designs in which various conventional mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic power systems are replaced with electrically-based power systems. Their objective is to improve the overall flight performance by reducing the aircraft weight and by a...

Weight Indexing for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Lifting Surfaces

Complexity Aspects in Design for Sustainability

Anthropogenic environmental impact is growing despite large technical efforts to reduce it. Its dependency on technology induced human behaviour makes designing for environmental impact reduction particularly difficult. Despite the fact that the sustainable conundrum is characterized as a “no technical solution problem”, a framework is proposed...

Knowledge based engineering techniques to support aircraft design and optimization

Since the 1960s, the demand for air transportation has doubled every 15 years, resilient to every oil crises and international events. However, the current capability of the air transport management system, the demand of increasingly growing levels of quality, comfort, safety and security, and, above all, an environmental sensitivity as high as...

Multidisciplinary design optimization of a second-generation supersonic transport aircraft using a hybrid genetic/gradient-guided algorithm.