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Hyperconnected simulation ecosystem supporting probabilistic design and predictive manufacturing of next generation aircraft structures

PROJECTS
Funding
European
European Union
Duration
-
Status
Ongoing
Geo-spatial type
Infrastructure Node
Total project cost
€5 956 880
EU Contribution
€5 956 880
Project Acronym
CAELESTIS
STRIA Roadmaps
Connected and automated transport (CAT)
Transport mode
Airborne icon
Transport policies
Decarbonisation
Transport sectors
Passenger transport

Overview

Call for proposal
HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01
Link to CORDIS
Background & Policy context

The aviation industry has set an ambitious target: net zero emissions by 2050. A new generation of aircrafts is essential to ensure the transition to clean aviation technologies is a reality. In this context, the EU-funded CAELESTIS project will explore the technology of virtual prototyping. It will develop a new interlinked system that can execute a huge number of calculations and predictions across the entire aviation value chain. The next step will be to create digital twins and model-based products and virtual prototyping. The aim is to reduce the costs and risks in developing new aircraft designs to reduce fuel consumption and the weight of aircraft.

Objectives

CAELESTIS will develop an end-to-end Interoperable Simulation Ecosystem (ISE) that will perform multidirectional dataflow across the aircraft value chain linking product design and distributed engineering teams´ CAD-CAE tools, to accelerate the design and engineering optimization of disruptive aircraft and engine configurations, ensuring their manufacturability from the design conceptualization. CAELESTIS ecosystem will be developed to integrate, interoperate, and autonomously execute simulation workflows involving a variety of state-of-the-art simulation tools to support the multi-disciplinary design, optimisation as well as uncertainty quantification and propagation across the design and manufacturing chain.

The ecosystem will be boosted by HPC infrastructures to massively execute predictions and deliver optimized design and engineering outputs at realistic-time scales. In this regard, high-fidelity model-based digital twins with unprecedented level of detail and covering several production stages and manufacturing deviations will be developed and interconnected. Those will be linked to machine learning tools adapted to HPC simulation outputs to improve detection of manufacturing flaws based on a probabilistic approach to quantify uncertainties and their propagation and influence on structural integrity, as well as identify design for manufacturing interdependencies to provide optimized product topologies.

From manufacturing point of view, HPC simulations will be made available at manufacturing shopfloor as reduced order models in online monitoring edge computing devices, to support i) product performance prediction based on detected defects on real time and ii) informed corrective actions to minimize and compensate their effect. Overall, CAELESTIS ISE will contribute to generate optimized and reliable aircraft design configurations, widen the design space and optimize the manufacturing process window and improve production efficiency and inline quality assurance.

Funding

Specific funding programme
HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
HORIZON.2.5.7 - Clean, Safe and Accessible Transport and Mobility
HORIZON.2.5.6 - Industrial Competitiveness in Transport
Other Programme
HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-06 Next generation digital aircraft transformation in design, manufacturing, integration and maintenance
Funding Source
Horizon Europe

Partners

Lead Organisation
Organisation
ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE
Address
CALLE RELVA TORNEIROS 27A, 36410 PORRINO, Spain
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€925 625
Partner Organisations
Organisation
ADDCOMPOSITES OY
Address
PUUMIEHENKUJA 5, 02150 ESPOO, Finland
EU Contribution
€329 892
Organisation
UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA
Address
PLACA SANT DOMENEC 3, 17004 GIRONA, Spain
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€583 437
Organisation
ESI GROUP
Address
3 BIS RUE SAARINEN, 94528 RUNGIS, France
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€820 062
Organisation
INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE TECHNOLOGIQUE JULES VERNE
Address
1 MAIL DES 20000 LIEUES, 44340 BOUGUENAIS, France
EU Contribution
€579 860
Organisation
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON
Address
MARIA DE LUNA 8, 50018 ZARAGOZA, Spain
EU Contribution
€450 125
Organisation
EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Address
ARCH. MAKARIOU III AND MESAORIAS 1 OFFICE 101, 2322 NICOSIA, Cyprus
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€250 000
Organisation
GKN AEROSPACE SWEDEN AB
Address
46181 TROLLHAETTAN, Sweden
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€543 727
Organisation
RTDS - VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG DER KOMMUNIKATION UND VERMITTLUNG VON FORSCHUNG, TECHNOLOGIE UND INNOVATION (RTDS VEREIN, ENGL. RTDS ASSOCIATION)
Address
LERCHENGASSE 25/2-3, 1080 WIEN, Austria
EU Contribution
€487 602
Organisation
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Address
STEVINWEG 1, 2628 CN DELFT, Netherlands
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€489 050
Organisation
BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION
Address
CALLE JORDI GIRONA 31, 08034 BARCELONA, Spain
Organisation website
EU Contribution
€497 500

Technologies

Technology Theme
Aircraft design and manufacturing
Technology
Aircraft design model
Development phase
Research/Invention

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