Aeronautical Design Fundamentals Training Course, Aeronautical Design Fundamentals Software Course

Aircraft Design Fundamentals

The fundamentals of aircraft designing equip students with the knowledge and skills to design and develop efficient aircraft that can effectively fly through the earth’s atmosphere. Through this course, students get well-acquainted to the architecture, function, and processes of aero-designing. The course covers topics:

Aircraft Design Fundamentals
Conceptual Design

Conceptual Design

The first step to designing a new product is Conceptual Designing. Under this stage drawings, illustrations, and models are used to conceptualize the design of the new product. In conceptual designing you learn:

Identification of customer needs
Defining problem
Problem statement

Concept generation
Screening of concepts
Selection of concepts

Aero Sketching

Even in this advanced technological era, the use of sketches remains equally important. It works as an efficient tool to create and communicate design ideas. Aero-sketching covers the following topics:

Aero architecture
Introduction to freehand sketching of simple geometries
Sketching in 1-Point, 2-Point and 3-Point Perspectives
Sketching with proportions

Concept sketching
Shading and Rendering best practices
Digital rendering using Sketchbook pro

Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering is the process used by designers to examine any part of an object to gain a comprehensive understanding of its operations. This information is later used to recreate or enhance the object examined. The topics covered under reverse engineering include:

Scanning / Measuring (Using 3D scanner)
Importing and processing of scanned data
Mesh processing of scanned data
Exporting mesh
Creating scans from the mesh data

Creating and editing curves from the scans
Creating and editing surface from curve geometry
3D modeling (CATIA Surfacing)
Product analysis (CAE)
Prototyping using 3D printing (Using 3D printer)

3D Printing

3D printing is the technique used to create a prototype for the product to test its operations. Specifically, a prototype helps evaluate a new design and assists the system analysts to establish precision in the system design. The modules to be covered under 3D printing are:

The general procedure of 3D Printing
3D CAD file formats
Stereolithography (STL) files
Printing technologies (SLA, SLS, FDM, Poly jet printing, Color jet Printing, SHS, SLM, LOM, Multi jet Printing, DLP)
FDM in detail
Operating Plasto 200 - Live demonstration

STL principles
Object placement
Object analysis
Slicing and printing
Print settings

Aircraft Structure Design

The aircraft structure design course by IID takes a deep dive into the structural designing of the Aircraft and impart adequate knowledge to students making them well-versed with the technicalities of structural designing. The course covers topics:

Aircraft Design / Build Process
Design Phases
Wing design

Fuselage design
Empennage design

Structural Analysis

Static structural analysis course acquaints you with the knowledge of effectively managing displacements, stresses, strains, and forces in structural components. An in-depth study of structural analysis enables students to solve complex structural engineering problems and to make an informed decision regarding structural designing. The course covers:

Introduction to CAE
Sketching and Part Modeling in design Modeler
Solid Modeling Fundamentals
Defining Material Properties
Meshing

Static Structural Analysis
Natural Frequencies
Buckling Loads
Thermal Analysis
Thermal Stress

System Integration

The study of combining the components of a sub-system to form a single unique system is known a system integration. The course of system integration covers:

Fundamentals of System Integration
Basis of System Integration
Support to understand technologies, methods, and requirement

Systems thinking
Experimentation to move from abstraction to implementation, innovation, and invention
Development of complete systems integration project

Mechanism Design

Mechanism design assists you in understanding the basics of motion of objects. This information helps in checking interferences and in computing minimal distances. The topics covered under the mechanism design course are:

Creating Joints
Editing Joints
Complex Joints

Generating Mechanisms
Simulating Mechanisms
Evaluating Mechanisms

Computational Fluid Analysis (CFD)

This course acquaints you with the knowledge of analysis and impact of fluid flow in aircraft. CFD helps to analyze and solve fluid flow in aircraft using numeric analysis and data structures. The course covers the following topics:

Fluent Simulation Process
ANSYS Fluent GUI and software preliminaries
Flow mix and heat transfer (3D)
Meshing using ANSYS meshing application
Transonic flow - Airfoil
CFD simulation setup
Modeling multi species flow

Turbulence model in Fluent
Modeling periodic heat flow
Advanced post-processing
Radiation and convection
Turbulent flow in the heat exchanger
Siphoning using multiphase

Manufacturing Fundamentals

This course is developed to introduce you to a wide range of manufacturing processes, such as machining, molding, joining, and casting. It aims at explaining the fundamental principles and practices of manufacturing at scale to the students. The course covers:

Manufacturing fundamentals
Types of Manufacturing Processes
Casting
Conventional and non-conventional machining

Milling and turning operation
Welding Process
Grinding Process
Heat treatment

Machining

The course gives you the right skill and sufficient knowledge to bring the design components to reality using appropriate technology tools. The topics covered under this course include:

Introduction to Manufacturing
CNC Concepts
Mastercam interface
2D and 3D models generation and Editing

2D and 3D milling
Lathe
EDM
CNC codes generation (Post Processing)

Who should attend?

The primary beneficiaries of this course are:

Students pursuing mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering and a diploma in mechanical [DME/BE(Mech.)/BE(Aero)]
Students pursuing a Master’s degree [M.E. (CAD/CAM)/ M.E. (Aeronautical)]
Professionals involved in product design, aeronautical design and aerospace design

Course Materials

All materials for this course are included in the course fee.