Original Article
  • Optimal Structural Design of Composite Helicopter Blades using a Genetic Algorithm-based Optimizer PSGA

  • Se Hoon Chang*, Sung Nam Jung**†

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

  • 유전자 알고리즘 PSGA를 이용한 복합재료 헬리콥터 블레이드 최적 구조설계

  • 장세훈*·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

  • School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Konkuk University

  • E-mail: snjung@konkuk.ac.kr