Through a recent NASA contract, Boeing Research and Technology in Huntington Beach, CA developed and optimized a conceptual design of an open rotor hybrid wing body aircraft (HWB). Open rotor engines offer a significant potential for fuel burn savings over turbofan engines, while the HWB configuration potentially allows to offset noise penalties through possible engine shielding. Researchers at NASA Langley converted the Boeing design to a FLOPS model which will be used to develop take-off and landing trajectories for community noise analyses. The FLOPS model was calibrated using Boeing data and shows good agreement with the original Boeing design. To complement Boeing s detailed aerodynamics and propulsion airframe integration work, a newly developed and validated conceptual structural analysis and optimization tool was used for a conceptual loads analysis and structural weights estimate. Structural optimization and weight calculation are based on a Nastran finite element model of the primary HWB structure, featuring centerbody, mid section, outboard wing, and aft body. Results for flight loads, deformations, wing weight, and centerbody weight are presented and compared to Boeing and FLOPS analyses.


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    Title :

    Conceptual Design and Structural Analysis of an Open Rotor Hybrid Wing Body Aircraft


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    Conference:

    54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC, Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference ; 2013 ; Boston, MA, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-04-08


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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