Effect of improved flight and control loads modelling on wing-box preliminary sizing

Paul Lancelot; Roeland De Breuker

Effect of improved flight and control loads modelling on wing-box preliminary sizing

Paul Lancelot, Roeland De Breuker

Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics

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Abstract

The proposed approach in this paper aims to bring the accuracy of CFD to quick linear aeroelastic simulations for structural sizing. This is achieved by deriving reduced-order models (ROM) of the aircraft movables, gust loads and manoeuvres loads from rigid CFD analysis and to use these as substitutes for the loads in the aeroelastic simulation. The corrected loads can then be incorporated into the wing-box sizing process which relies on a gradient-based optimizer that will eventually determine the optimal stiffness and thickness distribution of the wing structure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	6th Aircraft Structural Design Conference
Place of Publication	Bristol, England
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 9 Oct 2018
Event	6th Aircraft Structural Design Conference - Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Oct 2018 → 11 Oct 2018 Conference number: 6th

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Conference	6th Aircraft Structural Design Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Bristol
Period	9/10/18 → 11/10/18

Keywords

aeroelasticity
structural sizing
gust loads
control surfaces
aerodynamic characterisation

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Effect of improved flight and control loads modelling on wing-box preliminary sizing

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