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The ASTROS multidisciplinary design environment includes complimentary engineering analysis technologies from a comprehensive range of disciplines including: Structural Analysis, Aerodynamic Loads, Aeroelastic Stability, Control System Intergration, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Sensitivity Analysis, and Engineering Data Management.
Under prior SBIR Phase 1 and 2 contracts sponsored by the USAF/AFRL (1995-1998), ZONA Technology has integrated is aeroelastic and aeroservoelastic technologies into an earlier version of the ASTROS software. The seamless integration of these technologies with ASTROS has been named ASTROS*. During the course of the current ASTROS enhancement work, ZONA will be implementing it's latest aeroelastic and aeroservoelastic technologies into the current version of ASTROS. The following figure presents some new engineering capabilities that this new version of ASTROS* will support.
ASTROS - A Next Generation Aircraft Design System
Automated STRuctural Optimization System (ASTROS) is an engineering software tool that supports the preliminary design stage of a post conceptual design (PCD) aircraft structures and design modifications that that occur later in the product life cycle. ASTROS is intended to minimize the structural weight for a PCD aircraft once its outer modeline (geometry) is fixed. ASTROS is based on the industrial-standard NASTRAN data format and helps engineers reduce the time required to develop superior designs of aircraft structures.
Similar to the MSC.NASTRAN capability for preliminary design, ASTROS however differs from it in two aspects: (i) ASTROS is a seamless integration of all multidisciplinary modules (ii) ASTROS has ZAERO modules inside which are superior to the AeroOptions Module inside of MSC.NASTRAN. ASTROS therefore offers a single multidisciplinary automated environment to help reduce the time required to develop improved designs. ASTROS integrated all of the engineering disciplines that impact the preliminary structural design phase and can simultaneously design to meet strength, flutter, displacement, and other requirements. ASTROS considers a wide scope of conditions in a design task and treats multiple boundary conditions, each permitting a range of analysis such as statics, modes, and flutter.
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