Title

Designing And Optimizing Missiles In An Interactive Environment

Abstract

Designing missiles is a highly multidisciplinary engineering task. Involved in the design is geometric modeling, aerodynamics, propulsion, thermal analysis, weight estimation, trajectory analysis, lethality, structural analysis, controls analysis, packaging of components, and cost estimation. In the past these disciplines have been separated making it difficult to agree on a design that will satisfy the needs of each of the disciplines. Interactive Missile Design (IMD) is a somftware integrating the disciplinary tools involved in the conceptual design of missiles. With IMD, the designer can concentrate on improving the design instead of spending time on ensuring continuity between the disciplines. IMD will enable better missile designs and also reduce the design cycle time. IMD is built in an object-oriented dependency-tracking webenabled language called AML (Adaptive Modeling Language). With the integration of the disciplinary software optimization has become a natural extension of the capabilities of IMD. This paper will discuss the development of the interactive missile design environment, the optimization functionality integrated with it, as well as a missile optimization example. © 2002 by M. Alexandra Ahlqvist.

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Publication Title

9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2002-5624

Socpus ID

85088757979 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85088757979

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