Exploring mass trade-offs in preliminary vehicle design using Pareto sets

Collection of Technical Papers - 11th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1806-1815

  Donndelinger, Joseph ^a,c,d   Ferguson, Scott ^b,d,e   Lewis, Kemper ^b,d,e  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Vehicle Development Research Laboratory   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY MODEL (TFM); VEHICLE MASS; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE MEASURES;

FUEL ECONOMY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUND VEHICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33846497416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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