28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-1.9.2

TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT OF FUTURE AIRCRAFT: SOCIO-ECO-EFFICIENCY IN CONCEPTUAL AIRCRAFT DESIGN

M. Weiss, N. Dzikus, X. Sun
DLR, Germany

Keywords: air transport, society, economy, ecology, multi criteria assessment

An extended methodology to evaluate and optimize civil aircraft in means of socio-eco-efficiency index (SEEindex) is proposed. The introduced analysis procedure is demonstrated with examples of new low weight and low noise aircraft configurations in the conceptual design phase.

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