Manufacturing tolerances play an important role in designing low-cost and low-weight aircraft structures. A probabilistic cost model is developed that explicitly models performance cost along with quality and manufacturing costs to optimize manufacturing tolerances for damage-tolerant aircraft structures. The tolerance optimization is demonstrated for the design of a wing spar with fastener holes. The advantage of including performance cost is illustrated by comparing to an optimum found by ignoring the performance cost, showing substantial change in the optimum tolerance and total cost. The random aspect of quality cost is illustrated using measured manufacturing error data collected from the wing spar assemblies of a business jet. The paper also quantifies the uncertainties in the optimum due to finite samples of measured data used for modeling manufacturing error distributions, which were found to be small due to a large number of samples. Presented as Paper 2013-1465 at the 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Boston, MA, 8-11 April 2013


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    Title :

    Probabilistic Manufacturing Tolerance Optimization of Damage-Tolerant Aircraft Structures Using Measured Data



    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2015




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.50 Luftfahrzeugtechnik / 55.50
    Local classification TIB:    770/7040