AIAA LA-LV 5/13 Section Technical Meeting (Hybrid)
Saturday, May 13, 2023, 10:30 AM PDT (GMT -0700)(US and Canada)

Taking A Glider from Design to Flight

Understand how leveraging Commercial solutions can enable aerospace companies to cost-effectively mature their designs and bring concepts to life with more confidence

by

Tim Marinone
Project Engineer, Advanced Test Group, ATA Engineering, Inc.

Matt Schumann
Manager, Business Development, ATA Engineering Inc.
(Introduction to ATA Engineering Inc.)

(The speakers/panelists will present online remotely.)

Moderated by

Gary Moir

Chief Engineer, GAMA Ingenuirity

Technical Chair, AIAA LA-LV Section

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Lawndale Library (Meeting Room)
14615 Burin Ave., Lawndale, CA 90260
(South of 105 Hwy and East of 405 Hwy/Pacific Coast Hwy (1))

(Near SpaceX Hawthorne, and close to Northrop Grumman Space Park)
(No food or beverages allowed in the Meeting Room)

(also online for a hybrid event)

(This event is not sponsored by the Lawndale Library)

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Taking A Glider from Design to Flight

The history of aviation is filled with notable successes and equally catastrophic failures. One of these catastrophic failure modes is due to flutter, a dynamic instability caused by interactions between aerodynamic loads, stiffness, and inertial forces on the aircraft. Flutter typically occurs at some combination of flight speed and altitude at which the structure undergoes a positive feedback energy cycle. Because of the speed and severity of the failure caused by the flutter phenomena, the simulation and flight testing needed to safely approve the operating flight envelope is of critical importance.

In this webinar, we will explore Perlan II, a glider designed to break the record altitude for powerless flight. The Perlan Project team was very concerned about flutter due to both the high aspect ratio of the glider as well as the high altitude at which the glider was designed to operate. ATA Engineering was contracted to assist the Perlan team in taking their design from a basic solid model all the way through flight testing, where the operating flight envelope was successfully expanded. The full suite of Siemens solutions allows aerospace companies to successfully meet their performance and safety requirements all while managing project cost and schedule.

Agenda

• Overview of the Perlan II mission
• Using Simcenter Nastran for converting CAD geometry into finite element models (FEMs)
• Using Simcenter 3D Correlation for defining optimal measurement locations
• Using Simcenter Testlab and SCADAS for acquiring high-quality modal measurements
• Using Simcenter 3D Correlation for improving simulation predictions
• Using ZAERO for aeroelastic predictions
• Using Simcenter Testlab for flight monitoring

Tim Marinone
Project Engineer, Advanced Test Group, ATA Engineering, Inc.

Tim Marinone is a Project Engineer in ATA’s Advanced Test group. For 10 years he has supported customers with a focus on vibration and modal testing of defense systems and flight vehicles and has performed real-time flutter monitoring of flight tests for military and commercial aircraft to ensure both flight safety and accurate flight measurements. He received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2010 and 2012, respectively. 

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