Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) has been the world leader in commercial flight for more than 40 years. The main commercial products consist of the 717, 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777 families of jetliners and the Boeing Business Jet. The company has more than 14,000 commercial jetliners in service worldwide, which is roughly 75 percent of the world fleet.

SIMULIA provides the Abaqus nonlinear finite element analysis software to BCA. BCA has been using Abaqus software for over 15 years.

Simulations conducted regularly

• Nonlinear analysis and damage assessments of structural components
• Optimization of structural design details considering compression buckling analysis
• Crack propagation analysis in pressurized fuselage panels
• Manufacturing applications such as forming analyses of rivets