Aircraft designers strive to achieve optimal weight-reliability tradeoffs while designing an aircraft. Since aircraft wing skins account for more than fifty percent of their structural weight, aircraft wings must be d...Aircraft designers strive to achieve optimal weight-reliability tradeoffs while designing an aircraft. Since aircraft wing skins account for more than fifty percent of their structural weight, aircraft wings must be designed with utmost care and attention in terms of material types and thickness configurations. In particular, the selection of thickness at each location of the aircraft wing skin is the most consequential task for aircraft designers. To accomplish this, we present discrete mathematical programming models to obtain optimal thicknesses either to minimize weight or to maximize reliability. We present theoretical results for the decomposition of these discrete mathematical programming models to reduce computer memory requirements and facilitate the use of dynamic programming for design purposes. In particular, a decomposed version of the weight minimization problem is solved for an aircraft wing with thirty locations (or panels) and fourteen thickness choices for each location to yield an optimal minimum weight design.展开更多
A light and reliable aircraft has been the major goal of aircraft designers. It is imperative to design the aircraft wing skins as efficiently as possible since the wing skins comprise more than fifty percent of the s...A light and reliable aircraft has been the major goal of aircraft designers. It is imperative to design the aircraft wing skins as efficiently as possible since the wing skins comprise more than fifty percent of the structural weight of the aircraft wing. The aircraft wing skin consists of many different types of material and thickness configurations at various locations. Selecting a thickness for each location is perhaps the most significant design task. In this paper, we formulate discrete mathematical programming models to determine the optimal thicknesses for three different criteria: maximize reliability, minimize weight, and achieve a trade-off between maximizing reliability and minimizing weight. These three model formulations are generalized discrete resource-allocation problems, which lend themselves well to the dynamic programming approach. Consequently, we use the dynamic programming method to solve these model formulations. To illustrate our approach, an example is solved in which dynamic programming yields a minimum weight design as well as a trade-off curve for weight versus reliability for an aircraft wing with thirty locations (or panels) and fourteen thickness choices for each location.展开更多
针对多目标优化结果排序与选择的多属性决策(Multi-attribute decision making,MADM)问题,将多目标优化与MADM相结合,提出基于MADM的多目标优化方法,并将该方法应用于跨声速前掠翼(Forward-swept wing,FSW)气动隐身多目标优化中,优化结...针对多目标优化结果排序与选择的多属性决策(Multi-attribute decision making,MADM)问题,将多目标优化与MADM相结合,提出基于MADM的多目标优化方法,并将该方法应用于跨声速前掠翼(Forward-swept wing,FSW)气动隐身多目标优化中,优化结果提高了跨声速FSW的气动和隐身性能。采用类别形状函数变换法(Class-shape function transformation,CST)方法对翼型几何外形进行描述,实现FSW气动和隐身多学科优化设计模型的参数化描述。建立基于N-S方程的计算流体力学方法的FSW气动分析模型和基于矩量法的计算电磁学方法的FSW隐身分析模型。将Pareto多目标遗传算法得到的Pareto非劣解集构成MADM矩阵,采用基于模糊熵权的改进的逼近理想解的排序法(Modified technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution,M-TOPSIS)方案评价方法进行Pareto非劣解排序,最终确定最佳的Pareto非劣解。研究结果验证了所提出方法的有效性,为多目标优化问题提供了一种新的解决途径。展开更多
文摘Aircraft designers strive to achieve optimal weight-reliability tradeoffs while designing an aircraft. Since aircraft wing skins account for more than fifty percent of their structural weight, aircraft wings must be designed with utmost care and attention in terms of material types and thickness configurations. In particular, the selection of thickness at each location of the aircraft wing skin is the most consequential task for aircraft designers. To accomplish this, we present discrete mathematical programming models to obtain optimal thicknesses either to minimize weight or to maximize reliability. We present theoretical results for the decomposition of these discrete mathematical programming models to reduce computer memory requirements and facilitate the use of dynamic programming for design purposes. In particular, a decomposed version of the weight minimization problem is solved for an aircraft wing with thirty locations (or panels) and fourteen thickness choices for each location to yield an optimal minimum weight design.
文摘A light and reliable aircraft has been the major goal of aircraft designers. It is imperative to design the aircraft wing skins as efficiently as possible since the wing skins comprise more than fifty percent of the structural weight of the aircraft wing. The aircraft wing skin consists of many different types of material and thickness configurations at various locations. Selecting a thickness for each location is perhaps the most significant design task. In this paper, we formulate discrete mathematical programming models to determine the optimal thicknesses for three different criteria: maximize reliability, minimize weight, and achieve a trade-off between maximizing reliability and minimizing weight. These three model formulations are generalized discrete resource-allocation problems, which lend themselves well to the dynamic programming approach. Consequently, we use the dynamic programming method to solve these model formulations. To illustrate our approach, an example is solved in which dynamic programming yields a minimum weight design as well as a trade-off curve for weight versus reliability for an aircraft wing with thirty locations (or panels) and fourteen thickness choices for each location.
文摘针对多目标优化结果排序与选择的多属性决策(Multi-attribute decision making,MADM)问题,将多目标优化与MADM相结合,提出基于MADM的多目标优化方法,并将该方法应用于跨声速前掠翼(Forward-swept wing,FSW)气动隐身多目标优化中,优化结果提高了跨声速FSW的气动和隐身性能。采用类别形状函数变换法(Class-shape function transformation,CST)方法对翼型几何外形进行描述,实现FSW气动和隐身多学科优化设计模型的参数化描述。建立基于N-S方程的计算流体力学方法的FSW气动分析模型和基于矩量法的计算电磁学方法的FSW隐身分析模型。将Pareto多目标遗传算法得到的Pareto非劣解集构成MADM矩阵,采用基于模糊熵权的改进的逼近理想解的排序法(Modified technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution,M-TOPSIS)方案评价方法进行Pareto非劣解排序,最终确定最佳的Pareto非劣解。研究结果验证了所提出方法的有效性,为多目标优化问题提供了一种新的解决途径。
