Contemporary computational analysis of modern aircraft structures demands rapid and
efficient, yet accurate enough tools for the conceptual and preliminary design stages. On that …

By use of equivalent plate modeling, an ef cient method has been developed to study the
structural behavior and static aeroelastic response of general builtup wing structures …

DESPITE the advancements made in computer technology, it is a fact that some
computational problems still remain quite cumbersome to solve, and these difficulties are …

This paper provides a brief overview of the state-of-the-art for aeroelastic tailoring of
subsonic transport aircraft and offers additional resources on related research efforts …

Efficient optimization is a prerequisite to realize the full potential of an aeronautical structure.
The success of an optimization framework is predominately influenced by the ability to …

A progressive simulation-based design optimization strategy is developed that can be
applied to highly nonlinear impulse-type processes such as shot peening, laser peening …

The aim of this study is to find a rapid and accurate method for wing flutter prediction in the
early stage of aircraft design. A method using the concept of equivalent stiffness is presented …

An efficient method to analyze a low-aspect-ratio composite wing with a control surface is
developed in this paper. To reduce the problem size and the computational cost, two special …

Laser peening (LP) is a surface enhancement technique that has been applied to improve
fatigue and corrosion properties of metals. The ability to use a high energy laser pulse to …

Abstract An efficient method, Equivalent Plate Analysis or simply EPA, using an equivalent
plate model, is developed in the present work for studying the static and free-vibration …