Integrating aircraft cost modeling into conceptual design

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-330

  Curran, Richard ^a   Price, Mark ^a   Raghunathan, S ^a   Benard, Emmanuel ^a   Crosby, S ^a   Castagne, Sylvie ^a   Mawhinney, Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft design; Concept design; Cost modelling; Life cycle cost; Multidisciplinary engineering

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ESTIMATION; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

AIRCRAFT DESIGN; CONCEPT DESIGN; COST MODELLING; LIFE CYCLE COST; MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING;

COST ACCOUNTING;

EID: 30444438310     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: 15312003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X05060698     Document Type: Article

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