Design, Analysis and Optimization of an Aircraft Seat

Business aircraft seats are typically designed to provide maximum comfort to the occupant, while adhering to strict certification requirements. This tends to result in the designed seat becoming heavy and costly due to conservative tradeoff analysis, and a dependence upon legacy design techniques. With the advent of more powerful computer aided design techniques – it is possible to design a seat that meets both the comfort requirements of the occupant, and strict regulatory requirements. This project leverages advanced computer engineering design tools to optimize comfort and stress analysis to produce a mass and cost efficient design for a business aircraft seat.

Faculty Supervisor:

Il Yong Kim

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Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Montreal, QC);Queen's University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Queen's University

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