Designing Ranged Sets of Top-Level Design Specifications for a Family of Aircraft: An Application of Design Capability Indices 975513
Design capability indices provide a metric to assess the capability of a family of designs, represented by a range of top-level design specifications, to satisfy a ranged set of design requirements. Design capability indices can be used to manage design freedom in the early stages of the design process when design requirements for a system may be uncertain. To illustrate the use of design capability indices, the design of a family of General Aviation aircraft is presented: design capability indices are used to simultaneously design a family of three aircraft around a two, a four, and a six seater configuration. The results are compared against two of our previous studies.
Citation: Simpson, T., Allen, J., Mistree, F., and Chen, W., "Designing Ranged Sets of Top-Level Design Specifications for a Family of Aircraft: An Application of Design Capability Indices," SAE Technical Paper 975513, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/975513. Download Citation
Author(s):
Timothy W. Simpson, Janet K. Allen, Farrokh Mistree, Wei Chen
Affiliated:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Pages: 14
Event:
World Aviation Congress & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Business and general aviation aircraft
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