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Blended wing body structural concept development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

A. Velicki  and
P. Thrash
A. Velicki
Affiliation:
The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, California, USA
P. Thrash
Affiliation:
The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, California, USA
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Abstract

A lightweight robust airframe design is one of the key technological advancements necessary for the successful launch of a blended wing body aircraft. The non-circular pressure cabin dictates that substantial improvements beyond current state-of-the-art aluminium and composite structures is needed, and that improvements of this magnitude will require radically new airframe design and manufacturing practices. Such an approach is described in this paper. It is a highly integrated structural concept that is tailored and optimised to fully exploit the orthotropic nature and unique processing advantages inherent in dry carbon fibres, while also employing stitching to enable a unique damage-arrest design approach.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 114 , Issue 1158 , August 2010 , pp. 513 - 519
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2010 

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