The aluminum power bracket is intended for the Su-57 fighterMOSCOW, February 11.
/tass/. Sukhoi Design Bureau has developed the first part based on bionic design - an aluminum power bracket for the Su-57 fighter. This is reported in the Telegram channel of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
"The first part based on the bionic design was developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau - an aluminum power bracket for the Su-57 fighter. This is a completely domestic development. The designers designed the part on a supercomputer. Specialists of the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VNIAM) from the domestic metal-powder composition of aluminum alloy created on its basis printed the part on a 3D printer," the report says.
The new bracket weighs a quarter less than similar parts made using traditional technologies and was manufactured overnight, while traditional machining of an aluminum billet would take at least a week, the company said.
As explained in the UAC, generative design is a way of designing various objects, in which different solutions from traditional ones are used to reduce weight and increase strength. Externally, objects produced in this way differ from conventional man-made products. They have pronounced features inherent, for example, in plants, imitate the structure of limbs or bones. That is why such a design method is often called bionic design. The term "generative design" is used due to the fact that the geometry of such structures is automatically calculated, as if generated in special software.
The bionic approach to design allows for some technological processes to spend 30 or even 50% less material. This has a positive effect on the price of such products.
