Development of Material Selection Software for Airplane Construction

Abstract

Software named CAMSPlane was developed to implement the material selection strategy for airplane structure using rule based reasoning approach. The rule-based system is flexible, powerful and more applicable for domains where the possible solutions are either unbounded or large in numbers (Sapuan, 1999). The challenge of evaluating adequate technique for selection of optimal materials was solved in respect to the available expert knowledge and experience (Adejuyigbe, 2007). The software was designed to enable material data to be accessed through graphical user interface. It consists of an inference engine and knowledge base. The software was developed using Visual Basic 6.0 programming environment; designed to be interactive, user friendly and to run on Microsoft windows environment. The developed software can be updated or edited to suit other applications.