AUTOMATIC FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF A WING

This paper is concerned about the automatic finite element modeling of a wing structure. The row and column method is used to identify the structure parts(ribs, spars, skins and pillars). A customization module of PCL(PATRAN Command Language under PATRAN 6.0) code from constructing airfoil curves to creating the entire wing FEM model is designed and developed. The geome tric, mesh density, material, load and boundary parameters can be easily and correctly input with the friendly interactive interface. A VFW614 wing is analyzed from creating airfoil curves to the show of stresses calculated by using NASTRAN 68 as an example. The results show that this customization module is very effective and efficient.