Abstract
This paper presents a comparison study to assess how well a realistic aircraft structure can be represented with an equivalent plate model. A wing box and full wing structure of a high-speed civil transport aircraft configuration are analyzed. Static and vibration results from the equivalent plate analysis are compared with results from a finite element model. The results from these comparisons show that, for the simpler wing box models, the static displacements and first vibration frequency agree to within 1.5 percent. The full wing models only agree to within 10 percent, for both models, the higher frequencies vary by as much as 26 percent. These differences are due to inadequate refinement of the equivalent plate model.
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