Structural design space and interfaces of aft-mounted engines — methodological framework, structural design and optimization (B06)

• Subject Area: Mechanics ; Engineering Design, Machine Elements, Product Development
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 498601949

This project investigates the structural integration of the aft-mounted engines, as planned in configuration 1a (with BLI) and 1b (podded engine) to develop design solutions for the cross-system integration of the aircraft tail structure which are fed back into the overall design. With a focus on the entire rear structure and the engine mounts, new technological bricks such as morphing and auxetic structures are considered. To reach the targets novel solution approaches for multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) and new fundamental methods for machine-learned (ML) surrogate models and polymorphic uncertainty quantification (PUQ) will be developed in order to exploit the synergies and potentials of multidimensional functional integration.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 364: Synergies of Highly Integrated Transport Aircraft - SynTrac
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Braunschweig
• Project Heads: Dr.-Ing. Matthias Haupt; Professor Dr.-Ing. Tim Ricken