Aircraft Fuselage Design Study: Parametric Modeling, Structural Analysis, Material Evaluation and Optimization for Aircraft Fuselage

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The strong search for lightweight materials has become a trend in the aerospace industry. Aircraft manufacturers are responding to this trend and new aerospace materials are introduced to build lighter aircrafts. However material manufacturers, like Tata Steel, are unfamiliar with the determination of running loads and the behavior of materials in fuselage structures. Therefore an evaluation tool is needed for determining the running loads and evaluating the performance of new materials. This will give material manufacturers better insight in what properties and performance are specifically needed for materials in aircraft structures. The goal of this project is to develop an analytic design, analysis and evaluation tool for both metal and composite fuselage configurations in Visual Basic Application in order to gain insight into the structural performance of these material classes and to estimate the weight and required structural dimensions for both aluminum and composite fuselages.

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