Engineers make vertical lift viable: A look back at several research projects.

Last year an amazing team at Capgemini Engineering R&I and the Toulouse Engineering Center (TEC) worked on several engineering know-how projects in vertical lift aircraft. Ultimately our goal was to explore the digital workflows and toolchains that will support electric vertical take off and landing stakeholders achieve design type certification to conform to Means Of Compliance provided by regulatory bodies.

This is a look back at some of the work results (big and small).

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This particular project named 3DEX sought to cover all the processes of development of a real eVTOL prototype (1/5 scale) with a focus on operational and V&V activities using 3DEXPERIENCE. That includes looking at ways of working and an MBSE approach covering topics such as: traceability, 3D design mock-up, manufacturing and simulation (flight laws algorithms), prototype design thinking, subscale prototype and architecture trade-off. For details--we need the experts at the bottom of this article.

The big picture..

Creation of standard parts, materials and equipment...

Design of the vertical lift prototype (MBSE)...

Stress design simulation...

Project management...

Model based systems engineering

Fran?ois LAURET

Design

Romain CHELMAS

Manufacturing

Yassine ABDENNADHER

R&I Leaders:

Gianmarco SCALABRIN

Laurent LABRACHERIE