AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONFERENCE
Challenges for the Next Generation - Concept to Disposal
Tuesday 14th - Thursday 16th October 2008
The RAeS/CEAS Aircraft Structural Design Conference will be held in Liverpool (the home of the Beatles) at dates that coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight in the UK. It will address the challenges facing the designers of the next generation civil aircraft that will be complex and have to operate under strict environmental rules in an ever increasing market.
The scope of the conference is such that it will seek contributions that cover all current research and thinking about the type of civil aircraft structures, including innovative forms, required to sustain a growing, but threatened, industrial sector. Additionally it will cover the challenges that emerge from complete life-cycle consideration of an aircraft from initial concept to final disposal. The question of disposal is a particular challenge for modern designs involving the extensive use of composite materials.
In addition to examining structural concepts the conference will address design methods and methodologies, together with computational methods to support the creation of these aircraft. Contributions in this area will need to cover a broad range of research topics that match the current and future needs of the industry. Complex designs of the type normally considered in the “innovative design” category require interdisciplinary and dynamically interactive design methods as no single discipline can be taken in isolation. Today’s design teams are multinational, being distributed across continents, or the globe, and the computational methods must be able to support distributed working. The control of complexity is, therefore, a major issue that the conference wishes to address.
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