Today's new designs have increased in complexity and need to address more stringent
societal, environmental, financial and operational requirements. Hence, a paradigm shift is …

The design of an aircraft Final Assembly Line (FAL) is part of the product industrialisation
process. The FAL conceptual design phase is characterised by being time-consuming and …

My fellow graduate students have also been enormously helpful throughout the course of my
studies. Specifically, I would like to thank Henry Won, Tori Thomas, Samson Lim, Santiago …

In a product development process, it is crucial to understand and evaluate multiple and
synergic aspects of systems such as performance, cost, reliability, and safety. These aspects …

In the last 30 years, aircraft performance has experienced diminishing returns in terms of
efficiency, on the order of 1% reduction in fuel consumption annually since 2010 …

Abstract N AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT, it is crucial to understand and evaluate behavior,
performance, safety and other aspects of the systems before and after they are physically …

Abstract THE LARGEST AND most important fluid system in an aircraft is the fuel system.
Obviously, future aircraft projects will involve the design of fuel system to some degree. In …

HISTORICALLY, aircraft engine design has occurred in isolation of airframe design during
the design processes. However, as advanced aircraft concepts, such as NASA's N+ 1, N+ 2 …

Assumptions are commonly introduced to fill gaps in knowledge during the engineering
design process. However, the uncertainty inherent in these assumptions constitutes a risk …

Generating detailed warship layouts is crucial to check technical feasibility and performance
consistent with emergent requirement elucidation during early stage design. However …