Aerostructures undergo extensive design and testing lasting months or even years, including structural, stress, and buckling tests to ensure flight safety. If a structure fails testing, it requires redesign to meet weight optimization and safety standards, incurring significant time and cost, often in the millions.
Proper stress analysis upfront is vital to prevent redesign scenarios. Hamble engineers rely on standards, datasheets, and trusted methods to design structures for safety and weight optimization. Before aircraft production and market entry, prototypes undergo rigorous testing to identify failure modes. If structural testing reveals flaws, it's back to square one, incurring significant costs and delays.
Hamble Aerostructures must have reliable requirements, empirically tested data, and curves to optimize and meet weight targets. They need access to trusted data and standards from publishers such as BSI, ASTM, ASME, and many others to ensure safe and optimized designs. With around 600 employees, they needed unlimited, company-wide access to these documents, along with features like annotation, quick search, requirement linking, document sharing, version comparison, and alerts for standard updates.
