Design of composite wings including uncertainties: A probabilistic approach

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 601-607

  Manan, Abdul ^a,b   Cooper, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; WINGS;

DESIGN OF COMPOSITES; FIBER DIRECTION; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RELIABILITY CRITERION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 63349087012     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.39138     Document Type: Article

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