REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING METHODOLOGIES OF OPTIMAL DESIGNING THE COMPOSITE ROCKET AND SPACE EQUIPMENT UNITS

The article deals with the existing methodology for the optimal design of composite structures of rocket and space equipment. The aim is to identify ways to solve the problem of scientific support for the creation of highly efficient rocket and space equipment units of polymer composite materials. The tasks are the following: to conduct a critical review and analytical review of existing methods of optimal designing the composite structures of rocket and space technology and to identify the main trends in the solution of the considered problem. The applied methods are the following: critical review, analytical review and system analysis methods. The following results were obtained. It was discussed the problem of scientific support for creating highly efficient rocket and space equipment units of polymer composites. It was analyzed the existing methodologies for optimal units’ design of the considered class of equipment. It was revealed the main role of information and computer technologies at the current stage of the problem and the ways to solve it based on the results of qualification works. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is as follows: the main trends in the development of methodologies for optimal designing the composite rocket and space equipment units are identified and the ways of their development are outlined. It is concluded that the lack of completed studies to solve the discussed complex problem is associated with two main reasons. One of them requires the large volume of results for such solution and the carried out analysis demonstrates a clear approaching tendency. The second reason is the predictable scale of optimization complex of design parameters in this multicriteria problem of implementing projects to create composite rocket and space equipment units. It becomes possible only with the modern level of information computer technologies development and their prospective growth rate