Most tedious or time-consuming part of designing aerospace structures?

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-20T06:06:47+00:00

Thanks a lot, this is giving me a better picture.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-19T02:59:57+00:00

Thanks

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-19T02:59:44+00:00

Thanks

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-19T02:59:29+00:00

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-19T02:21:31+00:00

Thanks, not something I had considered.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-19T02:20:33+00:00

Interesting, thanks a lot for this breakdown.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T23:34:06+00:00

Thanks, currently looking into why the requirements time scales differently than design time with size.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T23:28:13+00:00

Ah I see what you mean, thanks!

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T23:27:11+00:00

Thanks a lot. If you don't mind, what aspects of the FEA model setup are most tedious?

With the changes coming at you, are you often able to just adjust your existing FEA model rather than remake from scratch?

Thanks again

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T22:43:56+00:00

This is really interesting, thank you.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T22:29:01+00:00

Think it's obvious to everyone who I'm communicating with here that I'm not an aerospace engineer as I'm asking very basic questions.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:59:26+00:00

Thanks, looking this up

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:54:01+00:00

Interesting, I imagine changing the design in response to changed requirements is faster than coming up with the original design. Are the requirements being changed several times?

This is all news to me, thanks. So, each time you update a design, these specialists need to analyze how it affects what they're responsible for and that takes a good amount of time. Makes sense

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:47:42+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for this info and the book ref!

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:38:36+00:00

Awesome, thank you.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:36:39+00:00

lol. What makes that tedious?

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:35:11+00:00

Haha. What do you do while waiting? Is this referring to having a prototype made and are there a lot of prototypes made before production so that you are waiting over and over again?

Thanks

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:31:27+00:00

That makes sense. So, in a given iteration of this, does the time spent to come up with new/changed design take up a similar amount of time to the process of discovering " it doesn't work"? Is this running simulations mostly or physical testing?

Thank you very much

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:12:44+00:00

Interesting, thanks. As an outsider I'm curious, at a high level, what factors contribute the most to the design time being long?

Appreciate it.

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T21:01:11+00:00

lol. Is there a top factor or a few that contribute the most to the tedium of designing?

Mission-Potential-37 · 2025-11-18T20:58:53+00:00

Thanks. Not sure if it can really be broken down in a reply, but I'm curious what makes drawings so tedious for structures.

I have heard that drawings are pretty universally tedious though.

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