A new partnership with Dassault Systèmes will allow GT-AE’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) to enhance the training of next generation aerospace engineers using the company’s powerful A&D Industry-based 3D Experiences.

A new partnership with Dassault Systèmes will allow GT-AE’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) to enhance the training of next generation aerospace engineers using the company’s powerful A&D Industry-based 3D Experiences.

"We're excited to add Dassault Systemes’ powerful expertise and software to ASDL's legacy of innovation and accomplishment," said Regents Professor Dr. Dimitri Mavris, the director of the Aerospace System Design Lab.

"It is our mutual commitment to pushing the limits that has brought such success to both Dassault and Georgia Tech. With this latest partnership, we look forward to continuing in that tradition."

Dassault Systemes (DS) is a leader in 3D-design software, 3D digital mock-up, and project lifecycle management (PLM) software. The company has work with Georgia Tech (GT) for several years – with GT leveraging the DS PLM solutions in its research and academic program.

The most recent partnership will enable advanced product development, manufacturing, and technologies using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and “Winning Program” Industry Solution, to:

  • Be at the cutting edge for multi-disciplinary, physics-based design methods suitable for the design of all types of complex systems
  • Rethink systems design by pulling “detailed” design aspects forward in design process
  • Leverage latest systems engineering methodologies and computational capabilities
  • Focus on virtual design, testing and certification (limiting physical prototyping)
  • Enable completely integrated design platforms and transparent requirements traceability
  • Utilize a non-weight based approach that brings structural, manufacturing and production planning considerations earlier in the design process 
     

The ASDL-DS collaboration tackles chronic issues in the design and manufacturability of complex aerospace systems using virtual experimentation and verification in place of physical prototyping.

This approach requires suites of software tools capable of defining transparent system requirements and enabling traceability, capturing sufficient component fidelity, modeling complex system interactions, fulfilling crucial verification and validation tasks, and infusing the impact of both manufacturability and procurement concerns early into the design process

The latest chapter of the ASDL-DS partnership aims to develop revolutionary approach to design and manufacturing with a methodology that focuses on minimizing the iterative design-build-test-redesign cycle that plagues many complex engineering projects. The integration of these methods within the DS Winning Program experience solution allow the decision-making to occur in the early stages of design, and leverages tools like IRMA and DS CATIA Knowledgeware to help manage vast combinatorial spaces, pare down concept spaces to the most promising alternatives, and remove mundane engineering tasks from the typical design process to enable engineers to focus on “high-value” work.