An aircraft’s structure, which provides its necessary strength and rigidity, must adhere to strict design requirements. While increasing the weight may add stability, excess structural weight also increases the airframer’s cost of manufacturing and reduces the aircraft’s efficiency/range for the operator (airliner).

Achieving an optimal structural weight is imperative, as increasing an aircraft's payload capacity may represent the difference between a profitable airliner and a failure. Weight reduction of aircraft components can be achieved by various methods, e.g., using alternate materials or optimizing designs. In this whitepaper from HCLTech, we focus on aircraft engine cowling structures, describing the best design and analysis approaches to weight optimization.

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