Remarks on Carpet Plots
– Multi Disciplinary (MD) Optimization – They are representations of MD Optimizations. – They are the main tools in performing trade studies b/w concepts or configuration choices (example: Assignment 1) – They are used to observe the behavior of 2 functions of 2 common variables simultaneously. – They can have different forms (i.e. you can have a carpet plot that shows the changes in one function of 2 variables. – Sometimes they are hard to interpret, since they look like a 3-d wire-frame representation. – Team members should understand how they are generated. For further trade studies, the table and graph will not be provided. – We will see more examples of them as we go along.