Original Article
  • A Study on the Optimal Design of UAM Composite Boom Structures through RVE-Based Structural Analysis

  • Ji-Hun Seok*, Seonghun Park*†, Sung-Youl Bae**†

  • * School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea Korea
    ** Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, Aerospace Convergence Materials Center, Korea

  • 대표체적요소 기반 해석을 활용한 UAM 복합재 붐 구조 최적설계 연구

  • 석지훈* · 박성훈*† · 배성열**†

  • 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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This Article

Correspondence to

  • Seonghun Park*, Sung-Youl Bae**

  • * School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea Korea
    ** Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, Aerospace Convergence Materials Center, Korea

  • E-mail: paks@pusan.ac.kr, bsy@kicet.re.kr