Original Article
  • Optimal Structural Design Framework of Composite Rotor Blades Using PSGA

  • Joon-Hyek Ahn*, Jae-Seong Bae*, Sung Nam Jung**†

  • * Department of Aerospace Information Engineering, Konkuk University
    ** Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Konkuk University

  • PSGA를 이용한 복합재료 블레이드의 최적 구조설계 프레임워크 개발 연구

  • 안준혁*· 배재성*· 정성남**†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Sung Nam Jung

  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Konkuk University

  • E-mail: snjung@konkuk.ac.kr