System Performance Improvement and Optimization Techniques and their Applications in Aerospace Systems

Content: 
Contributors to this Volume
Page ii

Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Contributors
Pages vii-viii

Preface
Pages ix-xii

Techniques for Aircraft Conceptual Design for Mission Performance Comparing Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization Methods
Pages 1-22
Augustine R. Dovi, Gregory A. Wrenn

Optimization of Aerospace Structures using Mathematical Functions for Variable Reduction
Pages 23-68
Uwe L. Berkes

Knowledge-Based System Techniques for Pilot Aiding
Pages 69-174
Hubert H. Chin

Techniques for Optimal Sensor Placement for On-Orbit Modal Identification and Correlation of Large Aerospace System Structures
Pages 175-224
Daniel C. Kammer

Investigation on the Use of Optimization Techniques for Helicopter Airframe Vibrations Design Studies
Pages 225-261
T. Sreekanta Murthy

Size-Reduction Techniques for the Determination of Efficient Aeroservoelastic Models
Pages 263-295
Mordechay Karpel

Sensitivity Analysis of Eigendata of Aeroelastic Systems
Pages 297-340
V.R. Murthy, Yi Lu

A Simplified General Solution Methodology for Transient Structural Dynamic Problems with Local Nonlinearities
Pages 341-371
EDWIN E. HENKEL, RENE HEWLETT, RAYMOND MAR

Balanced Systems and Structures: Reduction, Assignment, and Perturbations
Pages 373-415
Wodek Gawronski

Response-Only Measurement Techniques for the Determination of Aerospace System Structural Characteristics
Pages 417-448
An—Chen Lee, Juhn—Horng Chen

Krylov Vector Methods for Model Reduction and Control of Flexible Structures
Pages 449-481
Tzu-Jeng Su, Roy R. Craig Jr.

Maneuvering Target Tracking : Imaging and Non-Imaging Sensors
Pages 483-516
Michel Mariton, David D. Sworder

Index
Pages 517-521