Article History
Received: 21 February 2020
Revised: 11 July 2020
Accepted: 4 December 2020
First Online: 9 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The developed multidisciplinary free-form optimization program for the calculations consists of in-house C++ scripts that work in interaction with MSC/Nastran, which is run in batch mode on Windows. The Nastran files of the numerical examples presented in this paper are available on request for benchmark calculations by the reader.