Hurel, M., “The Advantages of High Aspect Ratios,” Interavia, Volume VII, No. 12, 1952, pp. 695-699.
“H.D.M. 105--Hurel's Aero with Miles' Van,” Flight, April 19, 1957, pp. 504-505.
Samual M. Dollyhigh, William J, Monta and Giuliana Sangiorgio, “Longitudinal Aerodynamic Characteristics at Mach 0.60 to 2.86 of a Fighter Configuration With Strut Braced Wing,” NASA TP 1102, Dec. 1977.
Kulfan, R.M., and Vachal, J.D., “Wing Planform Geometry Effects on Large Subsonic Military Transport Airplanes,” AFFDL-TR-78-16, Feb. 1978
Jobe, C.E., Kulfan, R.M., and Vachal, J.D., “Wing Planforms for Large Military Transports,” AIAA Paper 78-1470 (also, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 16, No. 7, July 1979, pp. 425-432).
Park, P.H., “The Effect on Block Fuel Consumption of a Strutted vs. Cantilever Wing for a Short Haul Transport Including Strut Aeroelastic Considerations,” AIAA Paper 78-1454, Aug. 1978
Turriziani, R.V., Lovell, W.A., Martin, G.L., Price, J.E., Swanson, E.E., and Washburn, G.F., “Preliminary Design Characteristics of a Subsonic Business Jet Concept Employing an Aspect Ratio 25 Strut-Braced Wing,” NASA CR-159361, Oct., 1980.
Smith, P.M., DeYoung, J., Lovell, W.A., Price, J.E., and Washburn, G.F., “A Study of High-Altitude Manned Research Aircraft Employing Strut-Braced Wings of High-Aspect-Ratio,” NASA-CR-159262, February, 1981.
“Anglo-French Aspects: Cross Channel High Aspect Wing Development,” Air Enthusiast, May/June, 1996, No. 63, pp. 33-37.
Grasmeyer, J.M., Naghshineh, A., Tetrault, P.-A., Grossman, B., Haftka, R.T., Kapania, R.K., Mason, W.H., Schetz, J.A., “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Strut-Braced Wing Aircraft with Tip-Mounted Engines,” MAD Center Report MAD 98-01-01, January 1998.
F.H. Gern, J.F. Gundlach, A. Ko, A. Naghshineh-Pour, E. Sulaeman, P.-A. Tetrault, B. Grossman. R.K. Kapania, W.H. Mason and J.A. Schetz, “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Transonic Commercial Transport with a Strut-Braced Wing,” Paper 1999-01-5621, 1999 World Aviation Conference, October 19-21, 1999, San Francisco, CA.
Joel M. Grasmeyer, “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Transonic Strut-Braced Wing Aircraft,” AIAA Student Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, Winter 2000, (also AIAA paper 1999-0010).
J.F. Gundlach, P.-A. Tetrault, F.H. Gern, , A. Naghshineh-Pour, A. Ko, J.A. Schetz, W.H. Mason, B. Grossman. R.K. Kapania, and R.T. Haftka “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Strut-Braced Transonic Transport,” AIAA 36th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, AIAA Paper 2000-0420, Jan. 2000
Gern, F.H., Sulaeman, E., Naghshineh-Pour, A., Kapania, R.K., and Haftka, R.T., “Flexible Wing Model for Structural Wing Sizing and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Strut-Braced Wing,” AIAA Paper 2000-1327, 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference and Exhibit, Atlanta, GA, April 3-6, 2000
Frank H. Gern, Andy Ko, Erwin Sulaeman, Rakesh K. Kapania, William H. Mason, Bernard Grossman and Raphael T. Haftka, “Passive load alleviation in the design of a strut-braced wing transonic transport aircraft ,” AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, 8th, Long Beach, CA, AIAA-2000-4826, Sept. 6-8, 2000
Andy Ko, Bernard Grossman, William H. Mason, and Raphael T. Haftka, “The role of constraints in the MDO of a cantilever and strut-braced wing transonic commercial transport aircraft,” 2000 World Aviation Conference, San Diego, CA, AIAA-2000-5609, Oct. 10-12, 2000
John F. Gundlach, IV, Philippe-Andre Tetrault, Frank H. Gern, Amir H. Nagshineh-Pour, Andy Ko, Joseph A. Schetz, William H. Mason, Rakesh K. Kapania, Bernard Grossman and Rafael T. Haftka, “Conceptual Design Studies of a Strut-Braced Wing Transonic Transport,” Journal of Aircaft, Vol. 37, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2000, pp. 976-983.
Frank H. Gern, Amir H. Nagshineh-Pour, Erwin Sulaeman, Rakesh K. Kapania and Rafael T. Haftka, “Structural Wing Sizing for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Strut-Braced Wing,” Journal of Aircaft, Vol. 38, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2001, pp. 154-163.
Erwin Sulaeman, Rakesh Kapania, and Raphael Haftka, “EEffect of compressive force on strut-braced wing response,” 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference and Exhibit, Seattle, WA, AIAA Paper 2001-1611, April 2001
Frank H. Gern, Andy Ko, Erwin Sulaeman, John F. Gundlach, IV, Rakesh K. Kapania and Rafael T. Haftka, “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Transonic Commercial Transport with Strut-Braced Wing,” Journal of Aircaft, Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2001, pp. 1006-1014.
Andy Ko. William H. Mason, B. Grossman and Joseph A. Schetz, “A-7 Strut Braced Wing Concept Transonic Wing Design,” Virginia Tech Dept. of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Report AOE-275, July 12, 2002.
Erwin Sulaeman, Rakesh K. Kapania and Raphael T. Kapania, “Parametric Studies of Flutter Speed in a Strut-Braced Wing,” 43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference and Exhibit, Denver, CO, AIAA Paper 2002-1487, April 2002
Erwin Sulaeman, Rakesh Kapania, and Raphael Haftka, “Effect of Compressive Force on Flutter Speed of a Strut-Braced Wing,” 44th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, AIAA-2003-1943, Apr. 7-10, 2003
Andy Ko, W.H. Mason and B. Grossman, “Transonic Aerodynamics of a Wing/Pylon/Strut Juncture,” 21st AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Orlando, FL, AIAA Paper 2003-4062, 23-26 June 2003.
Frank Gern, Andy Ko Bernard Grossman, R.T. Haftka, R.K. Kapania and W.H. Mason, “Transport Weight Reduction through MDO: the Strut-Braced Wing Transonic Transport,” 35th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conf. and Exhibit, Toronto, Canada, AIAA-2005-4667, June 6-9, 2005
Ohad Gur, Manav Bhatia, Joseph A. Schetz, William H. Mason, Rakesh K. Kapania, and Dimitri N. Mavris, “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Truss Braced Wing Aircraft,” 9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) and AIAA/AAAF Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium, AIAA-2009-7114, Hilton Head, South Carolina, September 21-23, 2009
Gur O., Bhatia M., Mason W.H., Schetz J.A., Kapania R.K., Nam, T. “Development of a Framework for Truss-Braced Wing Conceptual MDO,” AIAA Paper 2010-2754, 6th AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialist Conference, April 12-15, 2010, Orlando, Florida. (to appear: Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization)
Gur, Ohad, Schetz, Joseph A., and Mason, William H., “Aerodynamic Considerations in the Design of Truss-Braced Wing Aircraft,” AIAA 2010-4813, 28th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Chicago, IL, June 28-July 1, 2010.
Bhatia, M., Kapania, R.K., Gur, O., Schetz, J.A., Mason, W.H., and Haftka, R.T., “Progress Towards Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Truss Braced Wing Aircraft with Flutter Constraints,” AIAA 2010-9077, 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 13-15, 2010
Gur, Ohad, Manav Bhatia, Joseph A. Schetz, William H. Mason, Rakesh Kapania and Dimitri Mavris, “Design Optimization of a Truss-Braced-Wing Transonic Transport Aircraft,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 47, No. 6, November-December 2010, pp. 1907-1917.
Gur O., Bhatia M., Mason W.H., Schetz J.A., Kapania R.K., and Nam, T. “Development of a Framework for truss-braced wing conceptual MDO,” tructural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, January 2011.
Gur, Ohad, Schetz, Joseph A., and Mason, William H., “Aerodynamic Considerations in the Design of Truss-Braced-Wing Aircraft,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 48, No. 3, May-June 2011.
And the following are some of the papers are by Werner Pfenninger, who has provided a large impetus to the concept.
Pfenninger, W., “Design Considerations of Large Global Range High Subsonic Speed LFC Transport Airplanes," Summarized from the report "Some Thoughts on the Design of Large Global Range LFC Transport Airplanes,” Jan., 1976.
Pfenninger, W., “About All Laminar Flow LFC Airplanes,” Oct., 1981.
Pfenninger, W., “Large Long Range High Subsonic Speed LFC Transport Airplanes,” Nov. 24, 1992.
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