Effects of Alternative Wing Structural Concepts on High Speed Civil transport Life Cycle Costs

Abstract

An integrated design and manufacturing approach allows economic decisions to be made that reflect the entire system design as a whole. In order to achieve this objective, integrated cost and engineering models were developed and utilized within a focused design perspective. A framework for the integrated product and process design of an aircraft system with a combined performance and economic perspective is described in this paper. This framework is based on the concept of