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The Role Of Error In The Conceptual Design Of A Transport Aircraft, Robert A. Mcdonald
The Role Of Error In The Conceptual Design Of A Transport Aircraft, Robert A. Mcdonald
Robert A. McDonald
A fidelity trade environment was demonstrated by using it to simulate a decision making process for a transport aircraft. This scenario was not possible without the fidelity trade environment. The role of system feedback and coupling in error stability was also investigated.
A sensitivity approach which relies on the system sensitivity matrix was used to rapidly approximate the propagation of error through the complex system. In verification tests, the sensitivity approach provided approximate results substantially similar to a Monte Carlo approach that was many orders of magnitude more expensive. The rapid sensitivity approach to modeling error propagation enabled the responsive …
Forest Products Laboratory: Supporting The Nation's Armed Forces With Valuable Wood Research For 90 Years, Christopher D. Risbrudt, Robert J. Ross, Julie J. Blankenburg, Charles A. Nelson
Forest Products Laboratory: Supporting The Nation's Armed Forces With Valuable Wood Research For 90 Years, Christopher D. Risbrudt, Robert J. Ross, Julie J. Blankenburg, Charles A. Nelson
Julie Blankenburg
Founded in 1910 by the U.S. Forest Service to serve as a centralized, national wood research laboratory, the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) has a long history of providing technical services to other government agencies, including those within the Department of Defense (DoD). A recent search of FPL’s library and correspondence files revealed that approximately 10,000 articles, reports, manuals, other technical publications, and communications have been generated and provided to the DoD since 1910. FPL has provided support on a broad array of technical questions—from designporting materiel to Europe and the South Pacific during World War II to assisting in …