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The initial project for the digitalised development of control surfaces for future aircraft wings has now been successfully completed at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Virtual Product House (VPH). At the Bremen Center for Eco-efficient Materials and Technologies (EcoMaT), DLR and partners from industry and research simulated a sequential digitalised chain of development phases for a wing flap on a computer for the first time – from design to production and testing. In doing so, DLR is laying the foundation for future virtual aircraft design processes through to certification – an important tool for accelerating the development of highly efficient aircraft.
"On the journey towards emission-free air transport, DLR acts as an architect and considers the entire system, with all its interrelationships, in order to get innovative technologies and digital methods to the industrial application stage in a timely manner, working together with our partners. As an integration centre for virtual product development, VPH plays a key role at DLR, and is the interface with industry and the regulatory authorities," explains Markus Fischer, DLR Divisional Board Member for Aeronautics.
Now that the VPH process has been successfully implemented in the initial project, wing and flap concepts can be designed more efficiently and in a more target-oriented way through advance simulations of production and testing. This means that possible complications and shortcomings in later development phases can be anticipated early on and avoided by altering the design. The simulation-based test procedures are also intended to replace some of the physical tests. In future, there will be less need for tests to be conducted using complex facilities. "Not only does this save a lot of time and money for testing and certification, but the 'end-to-end' digitalised chain also makes it possible to significantly reduce the overall development time for innovative aircraft components," says Kristof Risse, Head of VPH at DLR, describing the advantages.
VPH has been set up as an integration centre and research platform where experts from various DLR institutes and partners work together to integrate all of the key disciplines involved in aircraft development. Digital collaboration and co-development with the industrial VPH partners are made possible via a 'common source' approach in the form of a secure simulation environment, which was developed as part of the VPH initial project.

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