CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 December 2005
Implementation Investments
LMS Virtual.Lab Helps China's First Aircraft Institute of AVIC-1 Develop New Regional Jet
LMS International announced that the First Aircraft Institute (FAI) of AVIC-1, an aerospace research institute in China, has deployed multiple licenses of LMS Virtual.Lab to support the development of the Advanced Regional Jet Program, ARJ21. Developed by FAI to meet China's growing need for air transportation, the ARJ21 will accommodate up to 100 passengers and will be available in freight, business jet, stretch and extended-range versions.
FAI recently deployed the LMS Virtual.Lab simulation suite to support the design and engineering of the aircraft body and the landing gear system. The software solutions being implemented by FAI include LMS Virtual.Lab Structures for finite-element pre- and post-processing driving external solvers such as Nastran, LMS Virtual.Lab Motion for the dynamic performance simulation of components and subsystems, LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics for the analysis of interior and exterior noise, and LMS Virtual.Lab Optimization for the automated evaluation of design alternatives.
Through their experience with the LMS Virtual.lab software, FAI designers and engineers strongly valued the tight integration of the different applications in one single user environment. Until now, simulation was performed with stand-alone programs, involving considerable time and effort spent on transferring data and models between software packages and reworking simulation models. LMS Virtual.Lab streamlines the different simulation tasks, which enhances the reliability and accuracy of simulation results and increases the efficiency of the overall process flow at FAI.
Throughout the aircraft development program, FAI also expects to strongly benefit from the integration between LMS Virtual.Lab and CATIA V5, which is used in the aircraft design process. This integration allows FAI development engineers to perform a complete range of analysis tasks in the same user environment, starting from the initial CAD model. Through these capabilities, designers can now easily and reliably perform simulations on individual component designs. This enables them to identify and correct potential problems, explore alternatives and optimize their designs early in the development process.
"Through the deployment of LMS Virtual.Lab, designers now find it quite easy and efficient to perform component analysis in their well-known CATIA V5 user environment without the systematic involvement of analysis specialists." explains Dr. Ning Zhen Bo, Vice President of Engineering at FAI. "Although LMS Virtual.lab was only introduced a year ago, we already noted significant time gains in the interaction between CAD design and the different simulation disciplines. This allows us to perform more design iterations, optimize our designs much earlier in the process, and greatly shorten the overall development cycle."
"We are pleased to welcome FAI into the growing community of leading-edge companies integrating LMS Virtual.Lab into their critical product development programs," says Willy Bakkers, LMS Executive Vice President and General Manager of the CAE Division. "FAI's decision to invest in LMS Virtual.Lab demonstrates the technical merit and business value of the solution and confirms that our simulation offering is closely aligned with the stringent performance simulation requirements of mission-critical aerospace systems."
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