A multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) framework has been used to design an aircraft brake assembly. This was done using a user-interactive implementation of the framework in which design information was obtained from analysis software used in industry but not developed for an MDO application. The design included a number of performance requirements associated with a brake that has been produced for a commercial aircraft. Design improvement was achieved using a practical number of system realizations and the interaction between the optimization algorithm and the design engineers was maintained throughout the process. [S1050-0472(00)00201-4]

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
aircraft, brakes, design engineering, optimisation, interactive systems
Topics:
Aircraft, Brakes, Design, Optimization, Weight (Mass)
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