Multidisciplinary Design and Packaging Optimization for Retractable Aircraft Landing Gear

航空航天业不断增长的需求，加上对更轻、更省油的飞机的需求，导致了对起落架组件自动化设计工具的需求。飞机起落架有许多活动部件，这给设计带来了巨大的挑战。提出的研究目标是通过利用等效静态载荷和进一步开发包装优化方法，开发一种新的方法，可以使起落架的设计过程自动化。最终目标将是开发一种设计工具，可以自动生成不同输入参数的最佳起落架。工程学科的好处是巨大的。虽然研究将集中在起落架上，但设计技术可以在广泛的应用中使用。通过女王大学和赛峰集团行业专家的联合研究，将开发出新颖实用的方法。

An ever-growing demand in the aerospace industry, coupled with the need for lighter and more fuel-efficient aircraft, has resulted in a need for an automated design tool for landing gear assemblies. Aircraft landing gear has many moving parts that create immense design challenges. The objective of the proposed research is to develop a novel methodology that can automate the design process of landing gears, by utilizing the equivalent static loading and by further developing packaging optimization methods. The ultimate goal will be to develop a design tool that can automatically generate the optimal landing gear for different input parameters.The benefits to the engineering discipline are immense. Although the research will be focused on landing gear, the design techniques can be potentially used in a wide range of applications. Through joint research between Queen's University and industry experts at Safran, novel and practical methodologies will be developed.