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 Interaction
- Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Sensitivity Analysis
- 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
ASTROS (Automated STRuctural Optimization System) supports both the preliminary design stages of new aircraft and spacecraft structures and design modifications that occur later in the product life cycle. ASTROS, based on the world-standard NASTRAN data format, combines finite element modeling and analysis techniques with efficient optimization solutions to deliver significant reductions in the time required to develop superior designs of aerospace structures.
ASTROS 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 simultaneouslydesign to 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.
