WITHDRAWN: Development of a High-Speed Vehicle Conceptual Design Process Using ADAPT Framework

The significant multidisciplinary challenges of high-speed vehicle design and development make the design process for these vehicles more complex and integrated than that of traditional aircraft. Along with this integration, the higher speeds invite more physics that the selected analysis tools must capture for accurate analysis and evaluation. To meet this multidisciplinary design need, design frameworks allow the integration of initially disconnected analysis tools at selected (and variable) fidelity levels. One such design tool explicitly built for aircraft design is the Aircraft Design, Analysis, Performance, and Tradespace (ADAPT) framework. This study describes the implementation of a design process for high-speed vehicles through the initial integration of the Engineering Sketch Pad (ESP), Configuration-Based Aerodynamics (CBAero), and Automatic Structural Layout Tool (AutoSaLT) as plugins within the ADAPT framework. We discuss the integration process of these tools in detail to show how we developed the plugins and linked them in ADAPT's workflow. We then show geometric, material, and structural layout trade studies on a selected geometry to showcase the capabilities of ADAPT, the potential of developing a design process within this framework, and to provide some insights from the trade study results.