Adaptive Tools for Electromagnetics and Materials Modelling to Bridge the Gap between Design and Manufacturing (AOTOMAT)

用于弥合设计与制造之间差距的电磁学和材料建模自适应工具 (AOTOMAT)

基本信息

批准号：
EP/P005578/1
负责人：
Y Hao
金额：
$ 119.22万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP005578%2F1
关键词：
Adaptive Tools Electromagnetics Materials Modelling

项目摘要

There is an industry-wide expectation that in order to meet the challenges laid out in the Horizon 2020 JTP document Clean Sky 2 (CS2), radically novel approaches are needed for the aircraft design, aerodynamics and the integration of novel functional and structural capabilities that together provide significant to savings weight and fuel. Current designs of communication system are based on non-conformal solutions and/or mechanically steerable antenna systems using mechanically steerable parabolic dishes (bulky) or phased arrays (expensive), both covered with excessive radomes. These solutions are protuberant, increasing aerodynamic drag, fuel consumption, visibility, and degrading handling qualities.To enable this step change, seamlessly embedded antennas and communication systems are needed so that they become part of the aircraft fuselage, which are constructed using novel advanced materials. This concept presents a highly innovative but challenging objective since solutions must also be manufacturable at sensible cost while meeting structural and system functionalities. The electromagnetic challenge is to come up with a conformal embedded communication system design that does not degrade performance, and allows interoperability between multiple antennas on a single platform in the presence of structural materials. In addition, the effects of new functionalities on strict mechanical and safety performance must be considered, and MRO-based repair and maintenance must remain possible.An adaptive approach to design is therefore required to optimize across (i) electromagnetic performance, (ii) aerodynamic performance based on realistic loads and non-linear vibrations and (iii) manufacturability, particularly drawing on latest 3D additive approaches to embedded functional materials. We aim to develop a novel computational tool-set that will be based on recent scientific advances in electromagnetics, atomistic-scale material and data-driven modelling both at the functional-structural dimensions and over the multi-scale geometric complexity. This deployment will provide robust design methodologies that can minimize the cost during the prototyping stage by providing results in a realistic time frame and will lead to optimal engineering designs in relation to aircraft that are ad hoc at best and heuristic at worst.

在整个行业范围内的期望，为了应对Horizon 2020 JTP文档Clean Sky 2（CS2）中提出的挑战，需要对飞机设计，空气动力学以及新颖的功能和结构能力的整合，共同为储蓄重量和燃料提供重要的重大功能所需的新方法。当前的通信系统设计基于非统一的解决方案和/或使用机械可拨动的抛物线盘（笨重）或分阶段阵列（昂贵）的机械可通的天线系统，均为过多的辐射群。这些解决方案是突出的，空气动力的阻力，燃油消耗，可见性和降解处理质量。要启用此步骤更改，需要无缝嵌入的天线和通信系统，以便它们成为使用新型高级材料构建的飞机弹药机的一部分。这个概念提出了一个高度创新但具有挑战性的目标，因为解决方案还必须以明智的成本制造，同时满足结构和系统功能。电磁挑战是提出一个不会降低性能的保形嵌入式通信系统设计，并在存在结构材料的情况下允许单个平台上多个天线之间的互操作性。此外，必须考虑新功能对严格的机械和安全性能的影响，并且必须保持基于MRO的维修和维护。因此，需要一种适应性的设计方法才能优化（i）电磁性能，（ii）基于逼真的载荷和非线性振动以及（III）的效果，尤其是在最新的3D添加功能上，基于逼真的载荷和非线性振动的效果，以启动3D添加功能。我们旨在开发一种新型的计算工具集，该工具集将基于在功能结构维度和多尺度几何复杂性上的电磁，原子尺度材料和数据驱动建模的最新科学进步。这种部署将提供强大的设计方法，可以通过在现实的时间范围内提供结果，可以在原型制作阶段最小化成本，并将导致最佳的工程设计与飞机最多是临时且最糟糕的启发式的飞机相关的最佳工程设计。