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The chapter presents the conceptual design, evaluation and selection of a blended wing body (BWB) and a carry-through wing box (CWB) aircraft, respectively. After a short introduction, the requirements and mission definition for the aircraft design are stated. The general design process is outlined, and an extensive section is dedicated to the multidisciplinary design process iterating between conceptual and structural design. The selection of the blended wing body (BWB) over the carry-through wing box (CWB) configuration is detailed in the last section, where the main characteristics of the two configurations are compared and the final choice of the BWB concept is motivated. The chapter is adapted with slight modifications from [10].
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The authors are very much indebted to all ACFA 2020 partners for their contributions. The authors are especially grateful to R. Maier and A. Wildschek from Airbus Group Innovations (formerly EADS Innovation Works) and J.-J. Mirat from AIRBUS for their continuing support. The authors would also like to thank participating colleagues K. Ploetner and B. Brueckner from Technische Universität München. Finally, we would like to thank W. Staudacher for his valuable contributions concerning the overall aircraft configuration.
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Baier, H. et al. (2015). Conceptual Design. In: Kozek, M., Schirrer, A. (eds) Modeling and Control for a Blended Wing Body Aircraft. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10792-9_2
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