Many of Boeing's products, including the new 787, make effective use of composite materials in their construction. These advanced materials offer superior weight and strength characteristics and are one of the principal reasons the 787 has become the fastest selling jetliner in aviation history. Building geometric models which enable the manufac...
Creator:
Grandine, Thomas (The Boeing Company)
Created:
2012-10-05
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
PDE-constrained optimization is an essential technology for product development at The Boeing Company. This talk will survey three separate applications of increasing mathematical and computational complexity. The first application is a relatively straightforward parametric surface lofting application. The second application is structural analys...
Creator:
Grandine, Thomas (The Boeing Company)
Created:
2016-06-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Modern commercial airplanes are assembled out of millions of different parts. While many of these parts are rigid, many of them are not. For example, the hydraulic lines and flexible electrical conduits that supply an airplane's landing gear change their shape as the landing gear goes through its motion (you can see some of these lines in the ac...
Creator:
Grandine, Thomas (The Boeing Company)
Created:
2011-08-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The process of laying out the curves and surfacesneeded to describe free form shapes in mechanical design is calledlofting. Examples of lofting include shapes such as ship hulls,airplane wings and bodies, automobile exteriors, and so on. The bestlofting procedures take a vector of inputs, which can contain items likewing span, wing sweep angle, ...
Creator:
Grandine, Thomas (The Boeing Company)
Created:
2008-08-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.