Aerospace Industry

nCode's powerful and versatile software solutions provides the Aerospace industry with fatigue durability and lifing solutions for Fixed and Rotary-wing Aircraft, Aerospace Design, Test Analysis, Aerospace OLM and HUMS, and Data Warehousing.

With nCode Software, Aerospace engineers can:

Accelerate design evaluations and design changes
Extend the life of existing systems and improve maintenance schedule
Rapidly understand the impact of system modifications
Improve development scheduling based on structural integrity - mission readiness
Make test data and analysis results availible quickly to the right people
Avoid over design and the associated cost and weight
Ensure consistency and enforce standards
Automate complex analysis and processes
Allows engineers to collaborate and work together
Deliver actionable information

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Aerospace Design with nCode DesignLife

Aerospace design and engineering can be extremely demanding on software applications. Processes have to be rigorously applied and controlled, so software solutions must be well designed, easy to understand, consistently repeatable, and straightforward to execute. With nCode DesignLife, analysis and reporting processes can be created by simply dragging and connecting analysis components (called 'glyphs'). These processes can be locked down to enforce QA procedures and protect your IP as required.

nCode DesignLife enables Aerospace engineers to perform:

CAE-based Fatigue Analysis

Identify when and where failure could occur
Multi-axial SN and EN fatigue analysis
Non-linear and linear FE analysis of transient or quasi-static loading
Simple to complex multi-axial loading spectra
Vibration fatigue from random or swept sine loading

Virtual tests

Accelerate evaluation and minimize prototype tests and costs (e.g. MIL-STD-810F) by predicting the structural performance directly from FE models

Damage Tolerance Analysis

Optimize inspection intervals by predicting critical crack lengths, growth rates and estimating maximum permissible flaw size
Perform forensic failure studies (including estimation of initial flaw size - EIFS)

Material Characterization

Provide accurate and comprehensive material properties for:
- Fatigue life prediction and analysis
- Comparison of material supply sources for consistency of quality

Aerospace Test Analysis with nCode GlyphWorks

Aircraft development, testing, and monitoring programs can, and frequently do, generate vast amounts of data. nCode GlyphWorks software is a comprehensive solution for de-noising and analyzing measured test data gathered from multiple sources. A complexity of measured data can be quickly transformed into easy to understand information and reports from which informed engineering and management judgments can be made.

nCode GlyphWorks enables Aerospace Engineers to perform:

Structural Test

Automatic data validation, processing, trending and fatigue analysis
Automatic alerts for trends defining onset of failure and excessive fatigue accumulation rates
Analyze and understand all types of data

Engine Test

Vibration analysis with order extraction
Octave analysis
Noise weighting functions
Joint Time Frequency Analysis (JTFA)
Frequency Response Function Analysis (FRF)

Environmental Test

Simplify, tailor and accelerate realistic shock and vibration tests
Qualify components and systems for service on different aircraft platforms using existing evidence
Equipment re-lifing and de-lifing assessments

Flight Test

Improved quality and availability of information for design and certification teams through automatic data validation and upload
Understand mission readiness and usage severity
Advanced data analysis, trending and reporting

Human Factors Assessment

Whole body shock and vibration assessments

OLM and HUMS with nCode software

Many aircraft being built today will still be in service years from now and an increasing number of operational aircraft will be subject to re-lifing. nCode software has specific application to OLM (Operational Loads Monitoring) and HUMS (Health and Usage Monitoring) to provide engineers and operators with the tools they need to have confidence in the continuing airworthiness of aircraft throughout their lifecycle.

Benefits of using nCode software for OLM & HUMS:

OLM Ground Station

Understand usage severity by automatically validating and characterizing measured data
Categorize maneuvers and flight events to understand the loads generated
“Future-proof” long term usage by performing retrospective analysis on archived data at any time when new methods are implemented

HUMS Ground Station

Automatically assess damage and trends to warn of durability issues using “Physics of Failure”
Schedule maintenance based on CBM and RCM initiatives
Determine mission readiness by:
- Comparing usage severity across the fleet
- Diagnostic trending
- Prognostic analysis
Re-lifing analysis

nCode Automation Data Warehouse

With the huge amount of data generated from aircraft, cataloguing and management of data becomes an issue in itself. Often the information describing the data is not readily available, therefore finding and accessing the correct data is a time consuming process. nCode Automation was designed with collaboration between design and test in mind. It provides a complete environment for automated data storage, analysis and reporting. Automation also provides a web-based collaborative interface for sharing test data and associated information throughout an organization.

nCode Automation provides:

Powerful web-based data management and analysis:

Consistent information and processes between design, test, and flight operations
Maximize availability of information throughout organizations while meeting import/export compliance requirements
Server-side analysis avoids complex client desktop software proliferation and large file transfer

Secure and scalable:

'Future proof' system that captures evolving experience and can rapidly re-process legacy data
Maximum flexibility to instantly access information while recognizing required privileges and restrictions
Scalable solutions from single server to multi-platform systems