Design of an aircraft brake component using an interactive multidisciplinary design optimization framework

A multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) framework has been used to de sign an aircraft brake assembly. This was done using a user-interactive imp lementation of the framework in which design information was obtained from analysis software used in industry but not developed for an MDO application . The design included a number of performance requirements associated with a brake that has been produced for a commercial aircraft. Design improvemen t was achieved using a practical number of system realizations and the inte raction between the optimization algorithm and the design engineers was mai ntained throughout the process. [S1050-0472(00)00201-4].