Redesigning of a Canard Control Surface of an Advanced Fighter Aircraft: Effect on Buckling and Aerodynamic Behavior

A redesign of canard control-surface of an advanced all-metallic fighter aircraft was carried out by using carbon fibre composite (CFC) for ribs and panels. In this study ply-orientations of CFC structure are optimized using a Genetic-Algorithm (GA) with an objective function to have minimum failure...

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Main Authors: Shrivastava Sachin, Mohite P.M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2015-01-01
Series:Curved and Layered Structures
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cls.2015.2.issue-1/cls-2015-0010/cls-2015-0010.xml?format=INT