LMS Imagine.Lab Ground Loads

LMS Imagine.Lab Ground Loads delivers tools to handle landing gear, braking and steering systems. The solution supports the multi-disciplinary nature of the task (hydraulics, electrics, thermal) and takes into account system structure/actuator coupling. It addresses the challenges posed by physical tests and maintenance costs reduction, sophisticated technologies and materials, and safety and certification requirements.

For the landing gear system and suspension, LMS Imagine.Lab Ground Loads provides a complete environment with multi-level modeling and simulation, multi-domain capability and integration with LMS Virtual.Lab Motion or MSC.ADAMS 3D geometry, multi-body dynamics, structural dynamics and optimization. This makes it possible to analyze earlier in the design process to diminish risks and uncover problems. With LMS Imagine.Lab Ground Loads, users can develop validated real-time prototypes from high-fidelity simulation models using the same platform and run less physical drop tests.

For anti-skid systems, LMS Imagine.Lab Ground Loads helps design and validate the complete braking function with a combination of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and control equipment for the modeling of each single component, like pumps and electro-hydraulic valves. Engineers have access to a complete platform to study multiple technologies: steel, carbon or ceramic brake technology as well as hydraulic or electric actuation. It accelerates and enhances the design and validation of these systems to ensure a good compromise between performance and risk.

LMS Imagine.Lab Ground Loads also handles the design and validation of the complete steering function with a combination of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and control equipment: design of single components like servo-controls and actuators, validation of component integration along with design and validation of control strategies.

The solution significantly facilitates the exchange between aircraft manufacturers and suppliers. It becomes possible to develop validated real-time virtual prototypes from high-fidelity simulation models using the same platform. Moreover, the solution can be seamlessly coupled with subsystems and is thus able to analyze the behavior and system dynamics of the global structure and its various parts as well as test technological choices.

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