Multilevel structural optimization for preliminary wing-box weight estimation

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 475-489

  Bindolino, G ^a,b   Ghiringhelli, G ^a,b   Ricci, S ^a,b   Terraneo, M ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; WINGS;

AEROELASTIC INTERACTIONS; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; PRIMARY STRUCTURES; SIMPLIFIED EVALUATIONS; STATISTICAL DATAS; WEIGHT ESTIMATION;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77950551069     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.41552     Document Type: Article

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