Composite Aircraft Seating

Engineering planning & Project Management

CAD Design & CAE Analysis

Prototyping

Toolmaking

Inspection

Press Forming

Air

Design, structural analysis and development of three seat assembly comprising:

Customer brief to deliver project in nine months

Timing prototype to production in 9 months
Non-linear static analysis of aircraft maximum flight, gust and ground loads, including emergency landing, using Abaqus
Non-linear dynamic analysis of static 10 deg. ‘pitch & roll’ preload using LS-DYNA
Intelligent manufacturing process development leading to significant improvement in production time
Use of epoxy carbon fibre systems to deliver key objective of leg room improvement
Design to meet stringent aerospace fire regulations (FAR 25.823)

Typical weight saving of 1 Kg / seat.
Saving of £600,000 per kg over the lifetime of the aircraft
Delivered 2” increase in leg room at knee level with no reduction in seat density

1 kg per seat
total weight saving £600,000 per kg saving
over the lifetime of the aircraft