Aerospace & Defense – Simulating Reality, Delivering Certainty

Perform multiphysics CFD simulations that are within 2% of physical experimental results

mscsoftwareblog — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:00:33 +0000

To simulate fluids or gasses, you might use CFD. To simulate solids, you might use FEA or MBD. To simulate the real world, such as a wind turbine moving through the air, a pure CFD or a separate pure FEA analysis is sometimes not enough. Instead, a multiphysics simulation, or co-simulation, is necessary to ensure ...

Moon Landing Launched 50 Years of Computer Aided Engineering Innovation

Keith Hanna — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:03:11 +0000

The first manned moon landing fifty years ago remains an inspiring example of human engineering, courage and determination. Today we’re still benefiting from the innovation it unleashed across multiple disciplines as the world looks anew at space exploration. On 20 July 1969 the Apollo 11 spacecraft made the first manned moon landing. Fifty years later ...

BAE Systems Air Selects Simufact Additive for Metal AM Simulation

Product Marketing — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:46:00 +0000

BAE Systems Air, a multinational defense, security, and aerospace company, has chosen MSC’s Simufact Additive software for the simulation of metal AM components after a long assessment of major AM simulation tools. BAE Systems launched a new Product and Process Development Center in 2015, where they conducted trials of market-leading packages for the simulation of ...

Optimizing An Additively Manufactured Unmanned Aerial System

Product Marketing — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:41:12 +0000

MSC is proud to support the students of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in the design and optimization of The Peregrine, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The team, led by Professor Mostafa El Sayed, is aiming to design, optimize, build, test, and fly an Additively Manufactured Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with ...

MSC Software Receives Silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award

Product Marketing — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:34:38 +0000

MSC Software receives the 2017 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. MSC Software maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from October 2016 to September 2017. This year, Boeing recognized suppliers who achieved either a ...

Unleash your Engineering Productivity with the Next Generation Platform for Simulation

Product Marketing — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:04:15 +0000

Aerospace vehicles are some of the most complex structures to design due to the level of physics and mathematics that needs to be involved. CAE has been a key driver for reducing cost and accelerating innovation, but current processes still suffer workflow inefficiencies and results often come too late in the design cycle – especially ...

Introducing MSC Apex Harris Hawk

Product Marketing — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:04:03 +0000

We are excited to introduce Harris Hawk, the latest release of MSC Apex coming soon! Hawk delivers a unique composites simulation experience that closely resembles the physical reality that composite engineers are familiar with. This release features many enhancements, from higher solver performance, easier Apex model management to the introduction of composite modeling and post-processing ...

How USC Saved Millions of Dollars in the Design of Aerospace Vehicles

Product Marketing — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:12:53 +0000

In recent years, the Aerospace Industry has increased their reliance on carbon-fiber composite materials to optimize the aerospace parts for optimized parameters, specifically for stiffeners. In fact, more than 50% of modern aerospace vehicle weight is composed of composites. The implementation of composite materials into aerospace vehicles will increase fatigue resistance and reduce maintenance. These stiffeners are ...

Rigorous, Transient 3D CFD Models of Unusually Complicated Fluid Networks/Circuits

Product Marketing — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:00:48 +0000

The role of fluid dynamics simulation in the design and development of various products has recently undergone what is arguably a paradigm shift due to the ability to simulate unusually complicated, multi-component, hydraulics flow circuits using three dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. The example shows a lubrication system model (developed using the Simerics-Sys / PumpLinx CFD software) for a 16 cylinder reciprocating internal combustion engine. This represents an advance in system-level modeling of hydraulic fluid networks over the current state of the art which is a blend of zero and one-dimensional models. This also represents continued progress in the role of CFD from the traditional component level modeling to system level modeling. System level modeling provides insight into interactions between components. Finally, it is equally important that model setup and run times are reasonable relative to development time scales.

Finite Element Analysis of a UAV Wing

Product Marketing — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:00:38 +0000

AeroVironment’s Global Observer is an unmanned aircraft with the wingspan of a Boeing 767 but less than 10% of the weight designed to provide communications and sensing for flights lasting up to one week at up to 65,000 feet. With a maximum wing loading of only 3.5 pounds per square feet, the wingtip deflects greater than 22 feet at its design limit load.

MSC Nastran was utilized to develop nonlinear stress, structural dynamic and aeroelastic finite element models. The structural dynamics model was correlated to a ground vibration test, both of which had to accommodate the apparent mass of the air, which is atypical. The ultimate test of the nonlinear stress model was correlation with the static wing load test.