Title page for ETD etd-04242009-040338
|Type of Document
||Jones, Robert W.
||Intersection and filleting of non-uniform B-spline surfaces
||Master of Science
|West, Robert L. Jr.
|Date of Defense
Preliminary aircraft design codes requIre a more complete and integrated geometry
definition than that used by conceptual design codes. This thesis documents the design
and creation of an interactive CAD system which converts the geometry descriptions
commonly used in conceptual aircraft design codes to descriptions that meet the
requirements of preliminary design systems. In particular, the conversion of ACSYNT
Hermite surface data of aircraft models to the non-uniform hi-cubic B-Spline surface
representation is addressed. The topics discussed in this thesis include the design and
development of an interactive graphics user interface, the design and coding of an
intersection method for non-uniform hi-cubic B-Spline surfaces utilizing subdivision
techniques and the development of a one-dimensional filleting algorithm for blending
surfaces along iso-parametric curves.
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