Determining Critical Gust Loads on Aircraft Structures Using an Evolutionary Algorithm
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In this paper an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is shown to be a feasible approach to solving the problem of determining the characteristics of wind gusts that result in critical loading of aircraft structures. The EA outperforms a traditional method suitable for solving linear problems, then is extended to nonlinear problems for which there is no effective solution methodology.
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