Simulation tools are transforming the field of aerospace design by enabling affordable, on-demand simulation capabilities. Escape Dynamics, Inc., has been actively using mechanical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation tools in the design/optimization process of several key components of their space launch system, including antennas for wireless energy transfer, airframe and structural components of a single-state-to-orbit space plane, and a highly efficient combustion-free engine configured to use wireless microwave energy to power a space plane. In this lecture we will summarize the key benefits of using Simulation software tools in aerospace design application, and we’ll focus more narrowly on the CFD and mechanical simulations of our thermal thruster engine. We will specifically focus on comparison between simulation results and the real-world test data and share the lessons we've learned in simulating various heat-exchanger topologies, flow-through nozzles and pipes, and flow-with-heat addition.

The aerospace industry has always necessitated a high degree of precision-be that in the aerofoil designs of the wings or the complex electronics on board. Designs may be as detailed as possible, but these ideas need to be accurate when they become a reality. This class will provide insight into how certain aerospace parts are manufactured, such as bladed disks (blisks) for a turbine. Blisks often need to be machined near perfectly, as any change in geometry has the chance to drastically reduce the fuel efficiency of an entire system. They are also usually created from incredibly strong materials like titanium or Inconel-further increasing the difficulty of manufacture. The Autodesk Advanced Consulting Team in Birmingham, United Kingdom, has a lot of experience with this sort of process, working with a wide variety of customers within the industry. We'll share some of the experiences we have encountered over recent years and how their related engineering challenges were overcome.

Learn how to build a rocket reaching the altitude of more than 100 kilometers using Autodesk Fusion software! Welcome to Elara Aerospace, a team of ambitious students who ignite innovation and take aerospace exploration to new heights. Our mission? To build the first student rocket with a bi-liquid methalox engine capable of reaching an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. Through collaborative, agile, and rapid product development, we are designing highly complex aerospace parts to build a rocket that has the ability to conduct experiments in the upper atmosphere. Using the Autodesk Fusion platform—which seamlessly combines design, simulation, rendering, and manufacturing in one accessible platform—we've accelerated our workflow and made collaboration easier than ever. With a unique blend of skills and passions, we push boundaries and break new ground in the industry alongside different backgrounds and cultures. Boundless curiosity and unwavering determination are working together to shape the future of aerospace.

The purpose of this class is to present an end-to-end workflow for generative and lattice design in the Automotive and Aerospace industry, using software and technology from Autodesk, Inc. At this moment in time, Autodesk is the only technology innovator that offers this unique capability—using their advanced software technology—for design, simulation, generative design (topology, skin, and lattice optimization), build simulation, build preparation, and advanced manufacturing methods. The class will demonstrate step by step the process involved in taking a component through design, simulation, optimization, build preparation, build simulation, post-build verification, and finishing. The class will educate attendees who wish to learn about the processes and challenges involved in additive design, lost-PLA casting and manufacturing. The software being demonstrated for the workflow includes Fusion 360 and Netfabb. This class will also present some of the challenges and solutions for certification.

With the announcement of Autodesk Generative Design, we take one of the most common structural engineering problems and turn it on its head. This class will teach you how to use AGD to discover unthought-of designs for a structural aerospace bracket. Learn how to go from seed geometry definition in Fusion 360, to problem definition, design generation, and results exploration in Autodesk Generative Design. Select from generated designs of different materials, safety factors and build constraints. Next, we use detailed non-linear finite element analysis in Fusion 360 to verify the selected Generative Design solution. Learn how to input non-linear properties for AM metals and correctly interpret finite element results. Once verified we will discuss AM (metal powder bed) build preparation with the help of Autodesk NetFabb. Finally, we will compare the performance of our new Generatively Designed bracket with that of the baseline (subtractive manufactured) bracket by physically breaking both of them!

In this class, Autodesk and GKN Aerospace will present how you can use Autodesk Fusion 360 software as a start-to-finish powerhouse for metal additive design and manufacturing. Starting with generative design, we can quickly explore possible print orientations and material possibilities, and build in automated design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) best practices to create designs that are optimized for structural performance, while minimizing the amount of required post processing. Once a design is selected, we’ll show how we can use the Additive Build Extension in Autodesk Fusion 360 to quickly create highly customizable support templates to generate intelligent support setups with a single click, and export directly to a powder bed additive printer for manufacturing.

Composite materials are an advanced family of materials that have been in development for decades and continue to gain usage in the aerospace, marine, automotive, and sporting goods industries. While composites enjoy benefits such as high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios, they are considerably more complicated than most metals and plastics. This class provides an introduction to composite materials and is intended for users with a little background or no background on composites. Attendees learn what a composite material is and the advantages/disadvantages of composites, as well as an overview of design, analysis, and manufacturing methods for composites. Finally, Autodesk® products with composites functionality are briefly discussed.

Before now, learning about small satellites was open to a limited number of people, such as aerospace undergraduate or graduate students. On top of that, its complexity created hurdles to understanding it unless you had an engineering background. Plus, it required a significant amount of time to go through. The Autodesk Fusion 360 software has enabled us to develop small satellite training that everyone can learn in a short period of time. In HEPTA-Sat training—designed to teach students about the design and development of small satellites—we use Team of Autodesk Fusion 360 to share information and design, and to simulate modeling. Moreover, we adjust electronic board and CAE, and add elements of generative design. We’ll demonstrate how Autodesk Fusion 360 streamlines processes, fosters innovation, and improves learning.

In this session, we'll explore Generative Design for additive, casting, and CNC manufacturing. We'll discuss the different applications of this technology and apply these to a range of industry problems from automotive, aerospace, and architecture. We will cover the complete end-to-end workflow utilising Generative Design all the way through to manufacturing for each method. We will also look beyond today's Generative Design to the work we are doing to integrate this technology into the factory of the future. We will explore some of the scientific research we are undertaking to continuously improve Generative Design and some of the methodologies being considered for a digitised reconfigurable additive manufacturing facility. Attendees will leave with a familiarity of the generative design process from a basic through to an advanced level, manufacturing, and also gain insight into the work being carried out on future digitised additive manufacturing factories.

Project MOnACO (Manufacturing Of a large-scale AM Component) is a $1.1 million research collaboration with GE Aviation et al. funded by the Clean Sky 2 program. The focus is to cut noise and emissions from the civil aerospace market using disruptive technologies. The aim is to converge design and manufacturing using the A.T.L.A.S. machine that’s currently the largest metal powder additive manufacturing of its kind (build size >1m). Autodesk is leading the design of the turbine center frame assembly using multiphysics Generative Design in Autodesk Fusion 360, the new product design extension for lattices and manufacturing simulation (Netfabb et al.) workflows geared toward large-scale additive manufacturing. The latest design is 34% lighter than its predecessor, and the components have been consolidated from 150 parts to a single part. In this talk, we’ll discuss how we applied Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) workflows using Autodesk design and make tools to solve tomorrow's problems.

Imperial College London Rocketry is a team of undergraduate engineers learning about aerospace through the design, build, and launch of rockets. With the desire to reach space one day, efficiency in both our process and our designs is critical. Follow us as we take you through our journey in preparation for the 2021 edition of the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC). EuRoC is an annual rocketry competition hosting university teams from all over Europe with the aim of building and launching rockets to reach a set altitude. Learn the basics of high-powered rocket design, and see how we integrate Autodesk Fusion 360 software into our process. We’ll cover the many challenges we faced and the decisions we made throughout a grueling week-long competition. And you’ll hear how the lessons we learned inform what we do now. Presented by current engineering students, you’ll see the impact of the experience on our personal and professional development, as well as our plans for this year’s edition of the competition.

How cool it is to watch the Landing gears of an Aircraft getting retracted back to its resting position and opening during landing and taxing! But a landing gear of an aircraft contributes to 20 percent of the total aircraft weight as they are very heavy and they should be as they have to support the entire aircraft weight while landing, takeoff, or taxing. So with this in mind, we’ve come out with an innovative solution of applying generative design to the aircraft landing gear for weight reduction and design optimization for drag reduction and more, so with this approach, we will be designing a landing gear in two variants in which we’ll apply generative design to one variant and second will be designed like the conventional landing gears and then we’ll 3D print both of them and we’ll take our models to wind tunnel and static structural testing. and then at last we will study and compare the performance of both the landing gears in various loads and wind tunnel conditions.

Advanced composite materials are replacing more and more metal components in a variety of industries, most notably, the aerospace industry. While there are many benefits to using composite materials, there are also inherent challenges when working with composite materials. Composite structures are often formed into complex organic shapes, and they're subject to tighter tolerancing and accuracy requirements than is a similar component made from plastic or another material. This creates the need for highly accurate, often complex mold tools and patterns to be machined. PowerMill software and PowerShape software are uniquely suited for rapidly producing high-quality composite tooling, as we'll demonstrate in this course. Another significant manufacturing challenge is machining the completed composite piece. Companies often employ the use of highly complex and expensive fixtures in attempts to accurately align and set up the part for machining while minimizing the time they have in non-productive, manual setup processes. This course will demonstrate how PowerInspect software can make possible the use of simple, inexpensive work holding while increasing accuracy and repeatability of the part setup. This tool can also be used to verify the machining operations before the part is moved from the machine, making any required rework much faster and simpler, and significantly reducing the common bottleneck at the quality department.

Designing and manufacturing the prototype of a fixed-wing drone that can fly stably requires complicated computing, design modeling, and manufacturing processes. These are very difficult, especially for the new students in the aerospace arena. However, Fusion 360 software can help make the workflow simple. Fusion 360 has greatly improved the efficiency and flexibility of drone structure design. Using the models exported by Fusion 360, students can produce the drone prototype through 3D printing, and then assemble the whole aircraft in a very short time. In this class, you’ll see the workflow from design to manufacturing and the flight-test scenarios. Find out how Fusion 360 makes it so simple and fast, and helps young students realize their flying dream.

Generative design in Fusion is not just for complex aerospace components that require expensive and time-consuming additive manufacturing or 5-axis CNC. In this session we will demonstrate an end-to-end workflow from 2.5-axis Fusion generative design through CAM for “everyday” CNC parts which can be programmed and machined in a matter of minutes, not hours or days. Starting with generative design, we will explore how to make the best use of the new 2.5-axis machining constraints with one of the Autodesk nerds behind the technology, then discuss editing and refining outcomes. Finally, one of the Autodesk experts in CAM for generative outcomes will share strategies for programming and producing the generative parts. The emphasis will be on improving designer and manufacturing engineer productivity, reducing CAD, CAM, and machining time, and going from problem definition through production in hours, not days.

Composite materials like carbon fiber and fiber glass pose a stronger and lighter alternative to traditional materials. These materials have changed the aerospace industry for more than 30 years and are making their way into automotive, construction, and consumer goods markets. However, not many designers and manufacturers have the knowledge or skill required to produce parts with these materials. This course will exhibit how software solutions are bringing the skills gap down, letting more product designers capitalize on advanced materials. We will walk through designing a composite part, analyzing its ability to be manufactured, generating data for the manufacturing process, and demonstrating some of the manufacturing techniques live in this course.

Mesa Associates, Inc., is a full-service engineering, procurement, and construction management firm specializing in power, defense, aerospace, industrial, commercial, and municipal entities. Learn how Mesa met its project- and data-management challenges with a discussion on the selection, implementation, and launch of Vault Professional software. Listen to an industry leader discuss the use of Vault Professional software as a single source of management for document preparation/development, distribution/receipt, and coordination within a multioffice, multidiscipline engineering environment.