Airbus moves forward with aircraft strength and performance simulation
Airbus is to expand its use of Dassault Systèmes' 3Dexperience simulation applications – in particular, Simulia – to speed up structural analysis and virtual testing of its next generation aircraft, starting with the A350-900.
It's part of Airbus' ADVANS (Accelerated Development for Vulnerability and Nonlinear System) programme, which harnesses Simulia Abaqus's nonlinear dynamic analysis capabilities to predict the real-world strength and performance of its aircraft structures.
Airbus designers and engineers will create very large simulation models, extracting data from aircraft models designed in Dassault's CATIA application.
Then, by using high-performance computing clusters, they will be able to perform full-scale, nonlinear structural simulations with Simulia Abaqus overnight.
This allows a deeper understanding of realistic structural performance earlier in the design cycle than is conventionally possible.
Accurate, nonlinear analysis, performed early in the design phase – and prior to costly physical tests – results in a higher quality design, faster, and at a lower cost.
