Outputs (5)

Stacking sequence optimisation of an aircraft wing skin (2023)
Journal Article

This paper demonstrates a stacking sequence optimisation process of a composite aircraft wing skin. A two-stage approach is employed to satisfy all sizing requirements of this industrial sized, medium altitude, long endurance drone. In the first stag... Read More about Stacking sequence optimisation of an aircraft wing skin.

Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles (2022)
Journal Article

Designing an airframe is a complex process as it requires knowledge from multiple disciplines such as aerodynamics, structural mechanics, manufacturing, flight dynamics, which individually lead to very different optimal designs. Furthermore, the grow... Read More about Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles.

Mixed Integer Linear Programming formulations of the stacking sequence and blending optimisation of composite structures (2021)
Journal Article

This manuscript proposes two novel formulations for the manufacturable stacking sequence retrieval of laminated composite structures. Detailed sizing of composite structures is commonly tackled by a two-stage optimisation approach, the first stage be... Read More about Mixed Integer Linear Programming formulations of the stacking sequence and blending optimisation of composite structures.

Acoustic topology optimisation using CMA-ES (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Structural topology optimisation techniques are increasingly being applied to acoustic materials. Most acoustic topology optimisation applications use the solid-isotropic-material-with-penalization (SIMP) approach [1]–[4] which is a derivative-based... Read More about Acoustic topology optimisation using CMA-ES.

To kit or not to kit: analysing the value of model-based kitting for additive manufacturing (2018)
Journal Article

The use of additive manufacturing (AM) for the production of functional parts is increasing. Thus, AM based practices that can reduce supply chain costs gain in importance. We take a forward-looking approach and study how AM can be used more effectiv... Read More about To kit or not to kit: analysing the value of model-based kitting for additive manufacturing.