Generally, Carpet Plots are constructed to find out an optimal design which will satisfy all the performance needs and is least in weight & cost.
I want to know how to construct such a carpet plot. I have seen lines of constant weight in many carpet plots with T/W and W/S in the Y and X-axis respectively. But, I don't know how they constructed that constant weight line.
If there are some good references for constructing these types of sizing plots, please let me know.
You might check out this package on the Matlab file exchange.
Set up a matrix or a grid of T/W and W/S. Then do your calculations and calculate weight, operating cost, or whatever metric you want for each T/W, W/S in the matrix.
Then, use a contour plotting routine to generate isolines (isoline means a line of constant value). Basically, the contour routine will interpolate from the values in your grid to find the location of your isoline.
Using contour plots like this is a very powerful technique to effectively 'invert' functions that are otherwise not invertible. This is a pretty direct application of the implicit function theorem f(x,y)=0.
The carpet plot toolkit linked above has some routines to help transform 'normal' contour lines onto a carpet plot. I believe the blue contours and also the red and green constraints depicted in the example were evaluated with a contour algorithm.
