FlightLoads
Accurate prediction of external loads

Accurate prediction of external loads is a critical function in the design and development of aerospace vehicles. A typical aerospace program requires numerous engineers who rely on accurate and timely external loads to compute stress, fatigue life and other performance-related attributes. For each day the downstream communication of external loads is delayed, a tremendous cost can be incurred to an aerospace program.
With FlightLoads, engineers and analysts can extend the capabilities of MSC Nastran and Patran to deliver unmatched prediction of external loads. FlightLoads provides a tool, which allows engineers to more accurately, efficiently, and confidently predict external loads on aerospace vehicles as well as predict structural dynamic response (flutter).

FlightLoads powerful graphical interface makes it both fast to learn and easy to use. Typical modeling and analysis processes commonly found across the aerospace engineering community are supported. FlightLoads supports structural and aerodynamic model evolution from concept through detailed design, incorporation of external sources of aerodynamics data, improved aero-structural coupling and nonlinear analysis.

FlightLoads Benefits

• Improve your understanding of the operating environment and its effect on your system with more accurate external loads and dynamics analyses
• Integrate test data into your analysis
• Increase efficiencies by reducing the time spent for each loads cycle
• Improve program management with timely communication of loads data
• Leverage your investment in simulation technology by using this product as part of MSC.Software's VPD Campus Licensing model

FlightLoads Applications

• Aerodynamic modeling
• Aero-structural coupling
• Static aeroelasticity
• Flutter