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Engineering tomorrow’s aircraft and space systems
Aerospace manufacturers are faced with the challenge of strategy focuses on making testing more efficient, integrate it
designing systems and components that have to be safer, more more tightly into the development process, and to leverage the
reliable, cheaper to operate, deliver better passenger comfort knowledge generated by testing throughout the company.
and have less environmental impact than their competitors.
In addition, they have to systematically reduce development LMS’ simulation and testing solutions are used by aerospace
times in order to get new products to market earlier. Yet, engineering teams to:
only a few prototypes are available and, in most cases,
only towards the end of the development cycle. Stringent • Ensure the structural integrity of the aircraft and its
environmental constraints, increased competition and global critical components, while applying lighter materials
partnering translate into difficult engineering challenges and • Reduce noise levels and emissions, while
an ever-stronger need for collaborative design and engineering increasing the performance of jet engines
solutions. • Increase passenger comfort, and at the
same time reduce overall weight
Although virtual prototype simulation has dramatically • Develop lighter mechanical systems without
accelerated the development processes, physical testing compromising safety and reliability
continues to play a mission-critical role. Only testing can • Design larger and more complex satellites that
provide the feedback the design teams require to validate withstand extreme launch and operation conditions
their assumptions and calibrate their virtual models. The LMS
Engineering services
Through its Engineering Services Division, LMS provides
vehicle development support: from overload contracting and
troubleshooting, technology transfer, process re-engineering
and co-development projects. Engineering Services is the LMS
catalyst for new technology deployment in both simulation and
test applications.
Airframe manufacturers are continuously creating innovative designs, making greater use of new lightweight materials and
increasing their focus on passenger comfort. Achieving a perfect balance between these competing requirements represents a
tremendous challenge for the design and engineering of the airframe.
Today’s engine designers need to manage the conflicting goals: increasing performance while reducing fuel consumption and
noise. To meet these challenges, engine designers need better tools to simulate performance prior to prototyping. They have
to define and prepare the tests as much as possible before the prototype is available, and have to acquire and evaluate large
amounts of test data while avoiding errors.
Acoustic & dynamic simulation data acquisition, fast and accurate data recording with on-line
analysis, automatic alarm capabilities to avoid damage and
With regulations for exterior and interior noise becoming more accelerated post-processing of large data volumes. A growing
stringent, the acoustic performance has to be considered early number of jet engine manufacturers and testing facilities have
in the design process to avoid problems requiring expensive turned to LMS, because of its state-of-the-art solution and
changes in later stages. LMS Virtual.Lab provides solutions to LMS’ extensive background in noise and vibration testing and
efficiently model the noise radiated by the engine and calculate analysis. In addition, LMS offers engineering data management
its contribution to exterior take-off, flyover and landing noise as and collaboration solutions that allow development teams, often
well as transmission to the aircraft interior. Dynamic response located far away from the testing sites, the capability to retrieve
can be modeled at the blade, engine section or complete and validate test data within minutes after the measurement.
engine level, making it possible to design a safe, efficient, quiet
engine early in the development process. Optimizing engine development
Dynamic testing and qualification of jet engines In the highly competitive aerospace industry, efficient CAE
simulation and analyses are vital to improving an engine design
Testing next-generation jet engines requires the ability to and increasing the cost-effectiveness of the development
safely, rapidly and reliably perform highly specialized rigorous process. The LMS optimization solutions allow integrating and
experiments and handle the massive amounts of output data optimizing the numerous types of software and systems that
from strain gauges, dynamic pressure transducers, tachometers, contribute to jet engine development cycle. Those are driving
accelerometers, microphones, and other sensors. Speed and a combination of in-house code and off-the-shelf software
reliability are absolute necessities in performing these tests that usually operate separately for structural calculations,
efficiently, in addition to integrated monitoring capabilities and aerodynamics, combustion, acoustics and thermal analysis. LMS
tools to quickly post-process results. To meet these challenging optimization solutions however allow to run and optimize these
demands, LMS Test.lab for jet engine testing combines flexible in a single process.
A major challenge facing engineers designing aerospace mechanical systems is to increase functionality while reducing weight
and improving reliability. The interaction between control systems and mechanical assemblies needs to ensure safety, durability
and stability. Loads at the component and system level need to be accurately calculated long before the prototype phase, while
taking into account the flexibility of the structures involved.
LMS Virtual.Lab provides dynamic and kinematic solutions LMS Virtual.Lab can also be used to predict the component
that can evaluate the behavior of mechanical systems such as loads that are required to evaluate the design. These loads are
landing gear, control surfaces, doors, overhead bins, etc., prior then used by LMS Virtual.Lab Durability to generate fatigue
to the availability of a physical prototype. LMS Virtual. Lab life predictions. Local stress concentrations are identified
performs multibody simulation of complex systems, while based on all possible combinations of local load conditions,
accounting for the flexibility of components and the operation making it possible to address durability problems long before
of control systems. Loads on components, assemblies and prototypes are built. LMS Virtual.Lab offers a wide range of
complete aircraft can be accurately calculated under a wide methods to determine fatigue life and to localize the weak
range of conditions, for example towing, taxying, symmetric spots. These approaches make it easy to predict the fatigue life
and asymmetric braking, takeoff and landing. Finally, the of components such as landing gear main fittings. LMS Virtual.
integration of control systems and hydraulics enables systems Lab is unique in its ability to easily integrate results from both
engineers to study how aircraft mechanisms will interact with virtual prototyping and physical testing.
power hydraulics or electrical actuators.
Space system design involves meeting rigorous environmental constraints and stringent weight requirements. The payload must
be able to withstand the pre-launch, launch and flight path loading while delivering full functionality and avoiding damage to other
critical components.
Multidisciplinary components analysis LMS Virtual.Lab allows development teams to accurately predict
the vibro-acoustic performance characteristics of aerospace
All of the equipment brought on board of launch vehicles or structures under random loading conditions.
spacecrafts must be designed not only to provide the required
performance during its expected lifetime, but also not to damage Modal survey tests
other systems or compromise integrity. LMS Virtual.Lab makes
it possible to quickly evaluate a wide variety of normal and LMS Test.Lab provides multichannel data acquisition capabilities
abnormal conditions so that scarce testing resources can be for large scale modal survey testing. Smart transducer
conserved for the most severe cases. Test data can easily be technology minimizes set-up and post-test analysis time.
overlaid onto the simulation results, for easy comparison of The same software and hardware environment is used for
loads for example. The component model can be combined with qualification and acceptance testing equipments, minimizing
a model of the supporting structure in order to make realistic costs and training requirements.
predictions about the performance of the coupled system.
Qualification and acceptance testing
Vibro-acoustic analysis
LMS Test.Lab delivers a complete solution for qualification and
Spacecraft and their components, within the fairing of a launch acceptance testing on spacecrafts, satellites and instruments.
vehicle, suffer extreme vibrational and acoustic loads. The most LMS Test.Lab is designed for parallel acquisition and online
severe acoustical conditions are usually met just before lift-off, reduction of several hundreds of vibration channels during
when the external acoustic environment is very intense due to random or sine closed loop vibration control testing, in
the intense sound waves generated by the rocket jets. Structural reverberant rooms, or for high frequency transient capture in
analysts and/or acoustic engineers require accurate, yet the context of deployment testing. Vibration qualification tests
easy-to-use and flexible tools to predict the performance of the include sine, random, shock, or combined modes, which can
satellite subjected to vibroacoustic loads of a random nature. quickly be configured to represent any environment condition.
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