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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Leeds
Bilevel optimization of blended composite wing panels
First paper to optimize composite wing panes using lamination parameters with angle of composite plies as design variables; buckling, strain, and ply percentage as constraints. Allows very fast structural evaluation, so problem can now efficiently be optimized using global optimization method like Genetic Algorithms. Led to: EC-FP7 funding for Advanced Lattice Structures for Composite Airframes project (€ 194K) (Reference: 265881) and follow-on EU project on the Production and Analysis Evolution for Lattice Related Barrel Elements Under Operations with Advanced Robustness; collaboration with TU Delft’s Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics Research Group (Z.Gurdal@tudelft.nl) and German Aerospace Centre (DLR) (Steffen.Niemann@dlr.de, Heike.Lohse-Busch@dlr.de).
