Title:
A bi-Level framework for aircraft design uncertainty quantification and management

dc.contributor.advisor Mavris, Dimitri N.
dc.contributor.author Mines, John Mark
dc.contributor.committeeMember Tai, Jimmy C.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Schrage, Daniel P.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Corman, Jason A.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Wilson, Joseph S.
dc.contributor.department Aerospace Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-29T14:04:10Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-29T14:04:10Z
dc.date.created 2019-05
dc.date.issued 2019-04-04
dc.date.submitted May 2019
dc.date.updated 2019-05-29T14:04:10Z
dc.description.abstract Aircraft design and development is a high-risk process. The recent obstacles with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Lockheed Martin F-35 show that the level of risk facing aircraft designers and manufactures has yet to be addressed. A review of work in this area reveals that methods do exist that quantify design uncertainty as well as capture common safeguards against unfavorable uncertainty realizations; however, three main capability gaps currently inhibit the effectiveness of uncertainty quantification and management: physics-based analysis, data-based uncertainty quantification, and a bi-level integrated design environment. Filling these three gaps are the contributions of this work. The geometry is explicitly modeled to retroactive changes to the design can be made in response to unfavorable uncertainty. Richardson's Extrapolation Method generates the error data needed parametric distribution fitting and correlation testing. A convergence loop based on structural weight converges two design environments of varying levels of fidelity. These three contributions are combined to form a new framework to design uncertainty quantification and management called the Reliability Assessment using Bi-level Design Analysis (RABiDA) framework.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61281
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Aircraft design
dc.subject Uncertainty quantification
dc.subject Optimization
dc.subject Risk assessment
dc.subject Reliability-based design optimization
dc.subject Finite element modeling
dc.subject Aircraft wing design
dc.subject Uncertainty propagation
dc.subject Conceptual design selection
dc.subject Design decision-making
dc.title A bi-Level framework for aircraft design uncertainty quantification and management
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Mavris, Dimitri N.
local.contributor.corporatename Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
local.relation.ispartofseries Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Aerospace Engineering
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