| Issue |
Volume 6, 2013
Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, Control, Fault Detection, and Avionics
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| Page(s) | 601 - 618 | |
| Section | Flexible aircraft control | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201306601 | |
| Published online | 02 December 2013 | |
Configuration selection for a 450-passenger ultraefficient 2020 aircraft
1
Institute of Aircraft Design Technische Universität
München, 15
Boltzmannstrasse, Garching
85747,
Germany
2
AIRBUS 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte,
Blagnac Cedex
31707,
France
3
Institute of Lightweight Structures Technische
Universität München, 15 Boltzmannstrasse, Garching
85747,
Germany
This paper describes the configuration selection process in the FP7 project ACFA (Active Control for Flexible Aircraft) 2020 in view of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) aims. The design process challenges and the comparison of a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft with a wide body carry-through wing box (CWB) configuration are described in detail. Furthermore, the interactions between the conceptual design and structural design using multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) to rapidly generate and adapt structural models to design changes and provide early feedback of mass and center of gravity values for these nontraditional configurations are discussed. Comparison of the two concepts determined that the developed all-lifting BWB airframe has the potential for a significant reduced fuel consumption compared to the CWB.
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