TY - CONF
T1 - Designing ranged sets of top-level design specifications for a family of aircraft
T2 - World Aviation Congress, 1997
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Allen, Janet K.
AU - Mistree, Farrokh
AU - Chen, Wei
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank T. L. Galloway from NASA for providing us with a copy of GASP, Rudi Cartuyvels (cartuyvl@imec.be) for letting us use NORMAN®, and the members of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology for developing the baseline GAA model. Timothy W. Simpson is funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. We gratefully acknowledge NAG-1-1564 and NSF grant DMI-96-12327. The cost of computer time was underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1997, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Design capability indices provide a metric to assess the capability of a family of designs, represented by a range of top level design specifications, to satisfy a ranged set of design requirements. Design capability indices can be used to manage design freedom in the early stages of the design process when design requirements for a system may be uncertain. To illustrate the use of design capability indices, the design of a family of General Aviation aircraft is presented: design capability indices are used to simultaneously design a family of three aircraft around a two, a four, and a six sealer configuration. The results are compared against two of our previous studies.
AB - Design capability indices provide a metric to assess the capability of a family of designs, represented by a range of top level design specifications, to satisfy a ranged set of design requirements. Design capability indices can be used to manage design freedom in the early stages of the design process when design requirements for a system may be uncertain. To illustrate the use of design capability indices, the design of a family of General Aviation aircraft is presented: design capability indices are used to simultaneously design a family of three aircraft around a two, a four, and a six sealer configuration. The results are compared against two of our previous studies.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.1997-5513
DO - 10.2514/6.1997-5513
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85032068976
Y2 - 13 October 1997 through 16 October 1997
ER -