TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF WING RIBS IN CESSNA CITATION

Structural design optimization is currently a valid design methodology which is applied in advanced engineering. The main important parameter in aircraft design is to reduce the weight and thus by achieving better performance. In wing most of the weight is contributed by the ribs which gives the basic shape to the wing. In this paper the structural optimization of the rib is performed by Computer Aided Optimization. By this optimization the weight of the wing gets reduced even with the better performance.