The research contributes toward a fully integrated multidisciplinary wing design synthesis by development of an appropriate structural model. The goal is to bridge the gap between highly idealized structural beam / aerodynamic strip models and the very detailed finite element and computational fluid dynamics, FEM/CFD, techniques. The former provides insufficient accuracy for flutter analysis of modern low aspect ratio composite wings. The latter is too computationally intensive for use in the inner loop of a simultaneous multidisciplinary optimization problem. The derived model provides a useful preliminary design tool as well. / Ph. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/37688 |
| Date | 04 May 2006 |
| Creators | Seitz, Timothy J. |
| Contributors | Engineering Mechanics, Meirovitch, Leonard, Hendricks, Scott L., Librescu, Liviu, Baumann, William T., Henneke, Edmund G. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation, Text |
| Format | x, 82 leaves, BTD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 27408191, LD5655.V856_1992.S436.pdf |
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