24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-5.1.R.2

WEIGHT ESTIMATION OF COMPOSITE SECONDARY STRUCTURE

Y-C. Cheng
Excelnet Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Keywords: weight, secondary structure, composite

Composite material has been vastly used in today aerospace industries, perhaps more than any other engineering material. This paper will discuss and serves as a guideline for weight estimation of composite secondary structure in generic form by using the composition of basic geometries and calculates the weight based on its resemblance.

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