Hyperconnected simulation ecosystem supporting probabilistic design and predictive manufacturing of next generation aircraft structures

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CAELESTIS will develop an end-to-end Interoperable Simulation Ecosystem (ISE) that will perform multidirectional dataflow across the aircraft value chain linking product design and distributed engineering teams´ CAD-CAE tools, to accelerate the design and engineering optimization of disruptive aircraft and engine configurations, ensuring their manufacturability from the design conceptualization.

CAELESTIS ecosystem will integrate, interoperate, and autonomously execute simulation workflows to support the multi-disciplinary design, optimisation as well as uncertainty quantification. This ecosystem will be boosted by HPC infrastructures to execute predictions and deliver optimized designs, and will include high-fidelity model-based digital twins covering several production stages. Machine learning tools will improve the detection of manufacturing defects and the quantification of their influence on structural integrity, as well as identify design for manufacturing interdependencies. HPC simulations will be available at manufacturing shopfloor as reduced order models in online monitoring edge computing devices, that will predict the effect on the structural performance of the detected defects and create corrective actions to minimize it.

Overall, CAELESTIS ISE will contribute to generate optimized and reliable aircraft design configurations, widen the design space, and optimize the manufacturing process window and improve production efficiency and inline quality assurance.

AIMEN is the coordinator of the CAELESTIS project, and leads the smart manufacturing activities (including composite manufacturing, on-line process monitoring, edge computing devices integration, or creation of synthetic data to feed machine learning models).

• Sectors: Aerospace
• Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
• R&D&i: Coating technology, Integrated monitoring and control systems, Multimaterial systems, Thermoplastic composites
• Partners: ESI GROUP, IRT Jules Verne, GKN AEROSPACE SWEDEN AB, Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, Girona University, ADDCOMPOSITES, BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER, EBOS TECHNOLOGIES, RTDS ASSOCIATION
• Acronym: CAELESTIS
• Ambit: International
• Web: https://www.caelestis-project.eu/