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Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft (TOICA)
Thermal behaviour of aircraft has recently become a crucial subject due to many factors: increasing number of complex systems required by modern, more electric, commercial aircraft, the introduction of hotter engines with higher by-pass ratios, the increased use of composite material in aircraft structures, or the confinement of highly dissipative equipment and systems in smaller areas to earn space for passengers and cargo.
New advanced techniques to manage the aircraft thermal behaviour at the very early stages of development are essential to take the right configuration decisions while meeting market demands. To work efficiently and on emerging innovative solutions, it is essential to perform thermal management at the global aircraft level. Today, thermal studies are performed for sizing and risk analyses.
The TOICA project intends to radically change the way thermal studies are performed within aircraft design processes. It will create and manage a thermal aircraft architecture which today does not exist. This will be shared in the extended enterprise with design partners through a collaborative environment supporting new advanced capabilities developed by the project, namely the architect cockpit, which will allow the architects and experts to monitor the thermal assessment of an aircraft and to perform trade-off studies. Super integration will support a holistic view of the aircraft and allow traditional design views and the related simulation cascade to be challenged.
Six use cases illustrating new thermal strategies will demonstrate the benefits of the TOICA approach on realistic aircraft configurations. Plateaus will be organised with architects for the definition, selection and evaluation of thermally optimised aircraft configurations. These plateaus will drumbeat the project. In parallel, technology readiness evaluations will assess the maturity of the developed technologies and support the deployment and exploitation of the TOICA results.
Partner organizations
- Atherm (Private, France)
- Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse (Private, France)
- Samtech (Private, Belgium)
- XRG Simulation (Private, Germany)
- Dassault Systemes (Private, France)
- Siemens Industry Software (Private, United Kingdom)
- Cranfield University (Academic, United Kingdom)
- National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) (Research Institute, Netherlands)
- Queen's University Belfast (Academic, United Kingdom)
- Airbus Group (Private, Netherlands)
- German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Research Institute, Germany)
- GKN Aerospace Sweden (Private, Sweden)
- Snecma (Private, France)
- MSC Software Corporation (Private, Germany)
- University of Cambridge (Academic, United Kingdom)
- European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), France (Private, France)
- Eurostep Group (Private, Sweden)
- Eurocopter Sas (Private, France)
- Dassault Aviation (Private, France)
- LMS Imagine (Private, France)
- Alenia Aermacchi (Private, Italy)
- Arttic (Private, France)
- Thales Group (Private, France)
- Office national d'etudes et de recherches aerospatiales (ONERA) (Private, France)
- Maya Heat Transfer Technologies (Private, Canada)
- Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique Asbl (Cenaero) (Research Institute, Belgium)
- University of Padua (Academic, Italy)
- Zodiac Aerotechnics (Private, France)
Start date
01/09/2013
End date
The project is closed: 31/08/2016
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Professor at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science
Hans research, which is focused on platform based development, is carried out in close cooperation with Swedish manufacturing, aerospace and automotive industry.
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Researcher at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science
Anders Forslund is within the research group for robust design and quality assurance. He works in close collaboration with the aerospace industry, and his research is about developing methods for...
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Full Professor at Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Division of Fluid Dynamics
I'm a professor in turbomachinery at the fluid dynamics division of the applied mechanics department. My research interests revolve around turbomachinery conceptual design and aero engine conceptual...
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Professor at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science
Dr Ola Isaksson is professor in Product Development and leader of the Systems Engineering Design research group. He has a PhD in Computer Aided Design from 1999 at Luleå university of technology, and...
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PhD Student at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science
Jonas is a PhD student within the research group Systems Engineering & PLM. The research concerns integrated platform-based development of products and manufacturing systems, for which an important...
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Project Leader at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science
Christoffer Levandowski resides in the ocean between platform-based development and Product Lifecycle Management. In more comprehendible words, the research focuses on finding IT-tools and processes...
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Researcher at the division of Product Development, Department of Industrial and Materials Science
My field of research is Lean Product Development and especially on Set-based Concurrent Engineering
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Head of Department of Industrial and Materials Science. Professor at the division of Product Development and Director for Wingquist Laboratory.
Dr Rikard Söderberg is chair professor in Product and Production Development. He received his PhD from Chalmers in 1995. After some years in the IT and consultancy sector he went back to Chalmers to...
Funded by
- European Commission (EC) (Public, Belgium)
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Johannesson, H., Emphasizing Reuse of Generic Assets through Integrated Product and Production System Development Platforms. In Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design – Methods and Applications, Editors T. Simpson, R.J. Jiao, Z. Siddique and K. Hölttä-Otto, Springer, 2013.
Gedell, Stellan; Johannesson, Hans: “Design rationale and system description aspects in product platform design: Focusing reuse in the design lifecycle phase”, Concurrent Engineering - Research and Applications, December 24, 2012
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