Project Summary and Outlook

Abstract

The UMRIDA project, on Uncertainty Management for Robust Industrial Design in Aeronautics, addressed major new developments in the new scientific area of uncertainty management and quantification (UM and UQ) and robust design methodologies (RDM), which are needed to bridge the gap toward industrial readiness of these methods. For this reason, research was performed in both UQ and RDM and developing methods to handle a large number of simultaneous uncertainties including generalized geometrical uncertainties within a quantifiable objective of a turnaround time acceptable for industrial readiness. A series of different methodologies was investigated and successfully assessed on the unique database with prescribed uncertainties, which was built from industrial challenges provided by the project partners. The UMRIDA project allowed to raise the Technology Readiness Level for various methodologies for UQ and RDO from a basic level 2–3 to an industrial applied level of 5–6, demonstrated by the application of the developed methods to industrial challenges form the UMRIDA database while respecting the quantifiable object defined. Finally, as an outcome of the project and final workshop, future challenges are identified.