Conceptual Design of Fuselage Structure of Very Light Jet Aircraft

This paper describes a conceptual design of fuselage structure for very light jet aircraft by using CAD software as the design tool. Specific size and performance, the number of competing designs and the commonality of features with existing light jet aircraft are factors need to be considered in the design process. This conceptual design develops the first general size and configuration for a new light jet aircraft fuselage structure. The model of the fuselage structure is then undergoing engineering simulation programmed which is based on the finite element method. In this analysis, problems with multiple components are modeled by associating the geometry defining each component with the appropriate material model and specifying component interaction. Besides that, the load increments and convergence tolerance are continually adjusted to ensure an accurate solution is obtained.