BLUE Engineering has many years of experience in Engineering, Design, Software Development, Verification and Validation, Testing.
Our services are applied to space structures, payloads & subsystems, propulsion test bench and manufacturing tools. We collaborated to the development of several international space programmes such as:
- ISS Cupola
- ISS Nodo2
- ATV
- RADAR SAT Satellite
- ALADIN Equipment
- ASTR Equipment
- IRES Equipment
- CDP Equipment
- VEGA Launcher
- EXOMARS
- GALILEO
- CYGNUS PCM
Main partners of our activities are Leonardo, ThalesAleniaSpace, Airbus Defence & Space and ESA.
For several programmes and payloads BLUE provides the following capabilities: Structural Analysis.
For the realization of Node2, ATV and Cupola, the interconnection elements between the various pressurized modules for the International Space Station, Blue has been responsible for the following activities:
- Structural check of the overall structure.
- Verification of the resistance to buckling of the single components.
- Structural inspection of riveting and bolting.
Thermal Control.
- Model Analysis
- Model Reduction
- Reporting
- Model Correlation with thermal vacuum tests data.
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Requirements Checking.
- Attitude simulation.
Fluid Mechanics
- Re-Entry Aerodynamics.
- Thermo-chemical non-equilibrium effects.
- Unsteady Aerodynamics: damping derivative and dynamic stability.
- Low-Gravity fluid dynamics and transport phenomena.
- CFD in propulsion: combustor chamber, turbine stage, pump stage.
- ECS System: Climate Control and Thermal Comfort.
Testing
- Testing facility design
- Structures
- Instruments
- Environment simulation (CO2, high temperatures)
- Test procedures definition & Execution
- Reporting.
Software Development
Since 2004 BLUE Engineering increased its experience on software development, we started a collaboration with ESA on the development of the Thermal Concept design tool, we participated actively in national programmes like STEPS, STEPS2 and CADET developing software tools for system modelling and advanced calculation methodologies such as GPGPU programming, IR image processing and recognition, MBSE.
BLUE is focused also on research and development in order to ensure the innovative contents of its projects and products. In particular main R&D activities and products can be summarised as follows: Research and Development. Participation to several research and development projects in different fields: aerospace, railway, automotive. The subjects of R&D projects are of very different type:
- Application of advance materials
- Application of advanced manufacturing methodologies (3D print for metal and plastic parts, Carbon Fiber grid panel technology)
- Advanced design and verification methodology
- New ground transportation vehicles (hybrid, unmanned, …)
- Development of system design tools
Some internal developments became products such as: P.ANA.MA
The Parametric Analysis Manager performs multidisciplinary sensitivity & optimization analyses with the stochastic method. It has the following features:
- Definition of variations of parameters
- Management of REMOTE ANALYSIS (structural, thermal …)
- Possibility of performing MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS CASES
- Data Processing
- Stochastic sensitivity and optimisation.
COSM
The Purpose of Collaborative System Manager is to support the calculation and analysis of several sector projects performed at discipline level through a common and user friendly environment with flexible degree of accuracy.
It shall describe space scenarios, run computation processes, analyse results with extended post-processing and easily build reports with curve, picture and animations. Each engineer is showed a well-defined and easy to use environment with a fast learning curve.
COSM was initially developed for the aerospace sector, and now collects features and can manage models relevant to automotive and railway sectors.
COSM is made in collaboration with ThalesAlenia Space Italia.
