28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-6.4.3


A NON-WEIGHT BASED, MANUFACTURING INFLUENCED DESIGN (MIND) METHODOLOGY FOR PRELIMINARY DESIGN

J. Ceisel, P. Witte, T. Carr, S. Pogaru, D. N. Mavris
ASDL, Georgia Inst. Of Technology, USA

Keywords: aircraft design, cost abstraction, design for manufacturing, surrogate modeling

This paper defines a new design methodology that incorporates appropriate, non-weight based manufacturing criteria during preliminary design to enable performance and manufacturing trade-offs. This methodology integrates a non-proprietary manufacturing tool, SEER-MFG, with design codes written in MATLAB into a multi-disciplinary environment using ModelCenter. Surrogates are then used for multi-attribute decisions.


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