School of Aerospace Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Original work in partial fulfillment of a graduate degree in the School of Aerospace Engineering
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Analysis and synthesis of allocations of authority and responsibility in novel air traffic concepts of operation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-01)The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) in the US and the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management (ATM) Research (SESAR) program in Europe are redefining ATM, allowing for transformative new concepts of ... -
Development of The Evolved Common Hardware Bus (TECHBus)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-28)This thesis presents the design and analysis of a small spacecraft bus for use by the Georgia Tech Space Systems Design Lab. It is designed with research projects in mind, and levies the previous design work of The University ... -
A Methodology for Probabilistic Aircraft Technology Assessment and Selection Under Uncertainty
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-27)The high degree of complexity and uncertainty associated with aerospace engineering applications has driven designers and engineers towards the use of probabilistic and statistical analysis tools in order to understand and ... -
Automatic Mass Balancing System for the 5-DOF Spacecraft Simulator
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-26)Spacecraft simulators are widely used to validate spacecraft attitude determination and control techniques. The Autonomous Spacecraft Testing of Robotic Operations in Space (ASTROS) facility at the School of Aerospace ... -
Life Cycle Cost Improvements from FOD Elimination on Turbofan Compressor Rotor Blades
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-28)Currently, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and operators of military aircraft with low-bypass jet engines do not consider the expensive and possibly catastrophic consequences of damage to the High Pressure Compressor ... -
Trajectory-Based Launch Vehicle Performance Analysis for Design-Space Exploration in Conceptual Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)Trajectory optimization is an important part of launch vehicle conceptual design. Current methods for trajectory optimization involve numerical analysis, are computationally expensive and require trajectory experts in the ... -
A New Rotorcraft Design Framework Based on Reliability and Cost
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-26)Helicopters provide essential services in civil and military applications due to their multirole capability and operational flexibility, but the combination of the disparate performance conditions of vertical and cruising ... -
Rapid Determination of Mass and Stiffness Distribution on Primary Skin-stiffener Structures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)In modern conceptual/preliminary design of aerospace vehicles it is common for a large number of concepts and configurations to be rapidly explored. For each configuration, the structures discipline is responsible for ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION OF CONTROL, NAVIGATION, AND SURVEILLANCE FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SEPARATION ASSURANCE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)The integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Airspace System (UASNAS) problem has received much attention because of the growing number of variety of mission types and the rapid growth of UAS market. Among ... -
A Framework for the Fast Evaluation of the Capability-Based Connectivity Robustness of a Collaborative Information Network
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-19)The research objective of this thesis is to develop a method to measure the capability-based connectivity robustness of a Collaborative Information Network (CIN) against link failures by using existing topological connectivity ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-12)To fulfill the future aviation needs of the public and military, there are efforts in industry and government to integrate aircraft with enabling technologies to achieve aggressive goals and requirements for performance ... -
A Design Space Exploration Methodology to Support Decisions Under Evolving Uncertainty in Requirements and Its Application to Advanced Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-27)Recent technological developments have resulted in the emergence of new advanced vehicles such as suborbital vehicles and personal air vehicles that have opened up new markets. These markets are characterized by a complex ... -
Aircraft Conceptual Design Enabled by a Set-Based Approach for the Exploration and Bounding of Non-Hypercubic Design Spaces
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-06-28)With the increasing reliance upon advanced computational methods for engineering analyses, there is a need for the efficient exploration of experimental design spaces. Contemporary methods such as traditional Design of ... -
Design Knowledge Coordination: Enhancing Novice Aerospace Engineers' Design Skills Through Coordinated Decision-Making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-06-17)This research contributes to both the aerospace engineering design community and the aerospace engineering education community by defining key indicators of design knowledge coordination as well as outlining indicators to ... -
Sparse reconstruction and analysis of guided wavefields for damage detection and quantification
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-23)This thesis presents the study of novel guided wave-based techniques that locate, quantify and analyze defects in composite materials and metals. These techniques find themselves at the intersection of Structural Health ... -
Linear Time Invariant Approximations of Linear Time Periodic Systems for Integrated Flight and Vibration Control
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-23)Recent developments in active rotor control have shown significant coupling between flight and vibration control systems which are traditionally designed independently. This coupling results in performance degradation of ... -
A Decision Support Framework for Aircraft Conceptual Design in the Presence of Competition
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-17)Most conceptual design techniques for aircraft implicitly assume that the aircraft manufacturer operates in a monopoly. This is because these techniques do not directly account for the possible actions of a competitor. By ... -
Risk-Value Optimization of Performance and Cost for Propellant Production on Mars
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-27)The nominal two-and-a-half year round-trip Mars mission requires extensive infrastructure to transport and safeguard its human crew, thus requiring large amounts of Initial Mass in Low Earth Orbit (IMLEO). Any technologies ... -
Simulations of vitiated bluff body stabilized flames
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-17)Bluff bodies have a wide range of applications where low-cost, light weight methods are needed to stabilize flames in high-speed flow. The principles of bluff body flame stabilization are straightforward, but many details ... -
Conceptual Design of High-Lift Propeller Systems for Small Electric Aircraft
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-10)The maturation of electric propulsion technologies presents intriguing new degrees of freedom for aircraft designers including the ability to distribute many small propellers upstream of the wing's leading edge to augment ...
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