Composite Optimization Software for Transport Aircraft design Evaluation (COSTADE) is being developed as a tool to support design build teams in their efforts to develop cost effective and feasible commercial aircraft fuselage structure. This paper contains a description of the development efforts of several of the major contributors to the code. The COSTADE tool currently contains a fabrication cost algorithm, structural analysis modules, a weight estimation module, manufacturing tolerance and constraint modules, and optimization algorithm modules. An application of COSTADE directed at evaluating and optimizing the ATCAS keel sandwich structure is outlined.
The use of COSTADE in developing composite commercial aircraft fuselage structures
Anwendung der zusammengesetzten Optimierungssoftware für die Entwurfsbewertung von Transportflugzeugen (COSTADE) bei der Entwicklung von Verbundrumpfkonstruktionen von Verkehrsflugzeugen
1994
10 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 16 Quellen
Conference paper
English