Curvilinearly T-Stiffened Panel-Optimization Framework Under Multiple Load Cases Using Parallel Processing

Future aerospace vehicles like hybrid wing/body, truss-braced wing, and “double bubble” would have pressurized noncircular fuselage structures and complex wing geometry. Traditional aircraft designs have led to the confidence and experience of designing such structures using the knowledge base built over the years and the resulting rules of thumb. However, there is a lack of experience of load calculations and design of complex, multifunctional, aircraft structural concepts for future aerospace vehicles. Designing such structures will require a physics-based optimization framework. Therefore, a new optimization framework, EBF3PanelOpt, is being developed. Commercial software MD-PATRAN (geometry modeling and mesh generation) and MD-NASTRAN (finite-element analysis) are integrated in EBF3PanelOpt framework using the Python programming environment to design stiffened panels with curvilinear stiffeners. Currently, EBF3PanelOpt optimizes the stiffened panel with curvilinear blade stiffeners, where the loads ar...