Comprehensive aircraft configuration design tool for Integrated Product and Process Development

  • Authors:

  • Abdulaziz Azamatov;Jae-Woo Lee;Yung-Hwan Byun

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, 143-701 Seoul, Republic of Korea;Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, 143-701 Seoul, Republic of Korea;Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, 143-701 Seoul, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Engineering Software
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper describes an efficient aircraft geometry design tool which is necessary for design and analysis applications through Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD). The design process decomposes aircraft geometry into several components to represent it accurately and realistically with a reduced number of shape control parameters. For this purpose, several configuration representation algorithms are thoroughly investigated and discussed. The proposed configuration generation algorithm employs the super ellipse equation with simple analytic distribution functions, Class function/Shape function Transformation (CST) and can represent and manipulate complex shapes accurately with a small number of control parameters. A model of aircraft geometry, represented in this approach, can be applied to conceptual and preliminary stages of aircraft design and development with realistic and accurate configuration data. A Parameter-based Comprehensive Aircraft Design (PCAD) tool which implements a geometry generation process for aircraft design and optimization using customization of commercial computer-aided design software (CATIA V5) and the Product Data Management (Enovia Smarteam). The proposed configuration design tool could be especially efficient when automation, flexibility and rapid changes of geometry are required in a short time and with low computational resources.