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https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-5989
Copy DOIPublication Date: Sep 10, 2008 |
This work considers the multi-objective aeroelastic optimization of a membrane micro air vehicle wing through topology optimization. The low aspect ratio wing is discretized into panels: a two material formulation on the wetted surface is used, where each panel can be membrane (wing skin) or carbon fiber (laminate reinforcement). An analytical sensitivity analysis of the aeroelastic system is used for the gradient-based optimization of aerodynamic objective functions. An explicit penalty is added, as needed, to force the structure to a 0-1 distribution. Pareto trade-off curves are constructed by considering convex combinations of two disparate lift, drag, or pitching moment-based objective functions. The general relationship between spatial stiffness distribution (wing topology) and aerodynamic performance is discussed, followed by the Pareto optimality of the computed designs over a series of baseline wing structures. The work concludes with an experimental validation of the superiority of select optimal...
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