Aircraft Loads

As a consultancy with expertise in the field of aircraft structural analysis and management, QinetiQ AeroStructures appreciates the importance of understanding the loads experienced by the airframe and the challenges that this goal can pose.  Whether endeavouring to interpret and apply loads data provided by the original design organisation, verifying design loads or establishing applied loads for the first time, QinetiQ AeroStructures can meet the requirement.

To support client projects, QinetiQ AeroStructures draws on a variety of capabilities including analytical and numerical loads modelling, on-ground and in-flight loads measurement, structural dynamic analysis and aeroelastic techniques.  Based on extensive practical experience, QinetiQ AeroStructures places great emphasis on ensuring analytically developed loads are subject to verification, sometimes via simple but effective testing.

The success of loads related projects relies as much on control of the scope and risk, based on experience and a detailed understanding of the problem, as on pure technical capability in specific fields.  QinetiQ AeroStructures' broad expertise in aircraft structural design, analysis and testing underpins all these activities. Whether the developed loads will be used in a repair design, fatigue analysis or structural test, QinetiQ AeroStructures' knowledge of the question being asked and aircraft design standards will ensure the loads project is focussed, cost effective and value-adding.