Cost/Performance Models for Composite Aircraft and Missile Structures

Abstract

Innovative design tools are required to identify potential new material candidates for missile and airframe structures. Emerging material technologies, in the form of new material systems and new fabrication processes, provide the motivation to review classic evaluation methodologies. Existing forms of component optimization are one-dimensional; implicitly regarding the cost associated with raw materials and component fabrication as a constant. The advent of new, more cost effective materials and processes necessitates the coupled consideration of both structural optimization and minimized cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA364924

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Algorithms
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Cost Models
  • Differential Equations
  • Fabrication
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Geometry
  • Laminates
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Micromechanics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Operations Research
  • Reinforced Composite Materials