Bilevel design of a wing structure using response surfaces

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 985-992

  Ragon, S A ^a   Gurdal Z ^a   Haftka, R T ^b   Tzong, T J ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

AIRCRAFT WING STRUCTURES; BILEVEL STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

WINGS;

EID: 0242336426     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6884     Document Type: Article

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