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Aerospace Industry Solutions

The aerospace industry is always pushing the envelope for faster, higher, farther, and more accurate systems. System complexity is increasing and more and more aerospace vehicles are interdependent on other vehicles and support equipment. The development of new vehicles involves risks that are not seen in any other industry.

There is help to tackle the challenges of developing more sophisticated aircraft and spacecraft vehicles. A suite of software tools is available to design, validate, manufacture, and operate these new systems. Template based simulation tools allow complex systems to be quickly assembled from components and subsystems. Parametric capability allows complete design variations to be explored, using Monte Carlo, Design of Experiments (DOE), robust design, and optimisation techniques. And high performance computing and simulation data management tools are available to provide the infrastructure required to simulate your systems fast and efficiently.

MSC Software is the leader in providing simulation tools to the aerospace industry for the last 40 years. Products like MSC Nastran, Patran, Adams, Marc, and Easy5 have proven themselves again and again on all of the major aerospace programs. And a new generation of tools and capabilities are now proving themselves developing the aerospace systems of the future.

Title		Customer

	Aircraft Flies into the Future with VPD For the new PC-21, Pilatus employed MSC Nastran for analysing components with respect to structural mechanics and dynamics, while Adams was used for design control kinematics.	Pilatus

	Boeing Makes the Connection to International Space Station Adams was used for functional verification of the attachment interface mechanisms on the ISS. The analysis reduced contact model development and helped Boeing minimise the possibility of introducing an error by providing stable, accurate solid-to-solid models.	Boeing

	Accelerating Landing Gear Design & Innovation with VPD Tools ELEB employs an integrated product development process that makes use of state-of-the-art technology and tools such as CATIA and MSC.Software Virtual Product Development (VPD) software for analysis and simulation.	EMBRAER Liebherr Equipamentos do Brasil

	Landing Gear FEM Analysis ELEB is responsible for the design, development, and production of the ERJ135/145 main landing gear and the ERJ170/190 nose landing gear.	EMBRAER Liebherr Equipamentos do Brasil

	Sikorsky Uses MSC Nastran Implicit Nonlinear to Reduce Design Bottlenecks MSC Nastran Implicit Nonlinear capabilities allows Sikorsky to do contact analysis and get an accurate estimate of the true buckling strength of a structure without any training in Marc.	Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

	Multidiscipline Simulation Keys Development of ISS Biology Lab The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency proves value of MSC.Software's Adams, Actran, and Nastran in developing gravitational biology lab for the International Space Station.	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

	Keeping Missile Guidance Systems on Track Draper Laboratory used Easy5 to provide the graphical user interface and infrastructure for a collaborative VPD environment in the development of missile guidance systems.	Draper Laboratory Cambridge

	NASA Set To Include Rotor Dynamics In Virtual Product Development Processes With MSC Nastran Rotor Dynamics, engineers can calculate maneuver loads for microgravity experiments and perform blade-out analyses, ensuring the physical test is passed first time.	NASA

	Japan Aerospace Agency Studies Wing Deformation in Next-Generation Supersonic Transport One of JAXA's current projects is the development, flight testing, and technical research required for a scaled nonpowered experimental aircraft, which is to be rocket-launched and glided back to ground.	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

	Simulation Reduces Airline Seat Testing Costs B/E Aerospace has successfully used Patran and MSC Nastran simulation tools when a seat has not met the certification test criteria to determine the causes and suggest design revisions.	B/E Aerospace

	Autonomous Satellite Docking System Extends The Life Of Micro-Satellites Michigan Aerospace Corporation kept costs down by creating a zero G test environment with system simulation and analysis software validated by physical testing.	Michigan Aerospace

	Durability of Solder Joints in the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile The reliability, or fatigue life, of solder joints is investigated by Boeing in the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) missile for various electronic components using Fatigue.	Boeing

	Space Shuttle Thrusters Easy5 was used to model the Space Shuttle Orbiter aft OMS/RCS propellant feed system and thrusters developed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems.	Boeing

	Virtual Prototyping Reduces Development Time and Risk on New Business Jet Virtual prototyping of the primary flight control system, using Adams, reduced development risk on the new Bombardier Continental Business Jet.	Bombardier

	Virtual Prototyping Saves Hundreds of Thousands in Missile Ejector Design Virtual prototyping, with Adams, saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in the design of a missile ejector by reducing the need for physical testing.	EDO Corporation

	Conceptual Models Reduce Risk in Landing Gear Design Engineers at Liebherr-Aerospace build and test conceptual Adams models of landing gear even before detailing their designs in CAD.	Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH

	Mission-Critical Simulation Hyper-X researchers are using Adams simulations to reduce risk in the separation mechanism's design.	Analytical Mechanics Association Inc.

	Lowering Vibration in Landing Gear At BF Goodrich Aerospace, engineers build and test computer models of landing systems in using Adams to find and fix complex vibration problems.	BF Goodrich Aerospace

	Unique Aircraft Design: Boeing's Blended Wing Body Easy5 was selected by The Boeing Company as the ideal tool for modelling and simulating the hydraulic system and flight controls at different flight conditions for the BWB.	Boeing

	Rocket Engine Balance and Optimisation For Rocketdyne, Easy5's Matrix Algebra Tool was adapted to perform engine balance optimisation using Easy5's Steady State solver.	Rocketdyne

	Aircraft Flight Dynamic Loads Analysis Boeing's Dynamic Loads group used Easy5 and the Matrix Algebra Tool as the core engineering tools to develop a new flight dynamic loads analysis process.	Boeing

	Aircraft Aft Cargo Loading System The Easy5 Thermal Hydraulic Library proved able to quickly solve the complex problem of repeated cyclic stress on the door hinges of the C-5 aircraft cargo door.	Boeing

	GKN Westland Helicopters Uses Patran for Breakthrough Helicopter Design Patran is used by GKN Westland for static analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and fatigue calculations, along with beam cross-section analysis.	GKN Westland

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