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Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles (2022)
Journal Article
Corrado, G., Ntourmas, G., Sferza, M., Traiforos, N., Arteiro, A., Brown, L., …Turner, T. (2022). Recent progress, challenges and outlook for multidisciplinary structural optimization of aircraft and aerial vehicles. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 135, Article 100861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paerosci.2022.100861

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.

TexGen (2022)
Book Chapter
Brown, L. P. (2022). TexGen. In Y. Kyosev, & F. Boussu (Eds.), Advanced Weaving Technology (253-291). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91515-5_6

This chapter gives an overview and introduction to the use of TexGen, open source software developed at the University of Nottingham as a pre-processor for 3D geometric modelling of textile structures. An overview is given of the modelling theory use... Read More about TexGen.