Optimal Composite Material Wing Design via Disjunctive Conic Cut

Abstract

The project's aim is to use novel Mixed-Integer Conic Optimization (MICO) techniques to design aircraft wing structures that take full advantage of new composite materials and manufacturing techniques. Considering the freedom provided by these design options is key to develop cutting-edge wing designs. However, obtaining (guaranteed) near-optimal solutions for the resulting large-scale structural design problem is very challenging for current solution approaches. The MICO solution approach allows to capture this complexity and obtain near-optimal solutions. In particular, as a result of this project, novel results have been obtained and published regarding the solution of discrete truss topology and ply-angle problems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 23, 2019
Accession Number
AD1096788

Entities

People

  • Ali Mohammad-Nezhad
  • Jaoquim R. Martins
  • John T. Hwang
  • Luis F. Zuluaga
  • Mohammad Shahabsafa
  • Ramin Fakhimi
  • Sicheng He
  • Tamás Terlaky
  • Weiming Lei

Organizations

  • Lehigh University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircraft Wings
  • Algorithms
  • Composite Materials
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Second Order Cone Programming
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design