Aeroelastic Analysis of Truss-Braced Wing Aircraft: Applications for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

This study highlights the aeroelastic behavior of very flexible truss-braced wing (TBW) aircraft designs obtained through a multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) framework. Several improvements to previous analysis methods were developed and validated. Firstly, a flutter constraint was develo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mallik, Wrik
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71650