Special Session 1

SPECIAL SESSION #1

Michele Buonsanti

Department DICEAM - Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

• michele.buonsanti@unirc.it

Valerio Scordamaglia

Department DIIES - Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

• valerio.scordamaglia@unirc.it

Modeling, simulation and validation of systems are concepts now integrated into the great scientific sphere that encompasses our society. The aeronautical context is not overlooked, indeed it represents one of the peaks of greatest use, undoubtedly for the aspects concerning the design phase for aircraft and components but also for the maintenance, management and, last but not least, operational aspects. Nonetheless, the complexity and interactions that characterize the aeronautical and aerospace context have generated heterogeneous problems, namely, the increase of interactions in the relationships between humans and everything else that surrounds the system, in particular and with adequate reason flight safety in all its areas. The simulation of an environment or a mechanism can be reasonably reproduced today with sufficient reliability vice versa, the presence and therefore the consistency of human performance becomes, by its essence, considerably more difficult to model and simulate. As the complexity of systems increases, so does the difficulty of integrating the individual components within the system such that full and reliable operation is guaranteed. The modeling, simulation and validation of systems allows you to create a complete digital prototype, in order to understand and optimize the critical interactions between physics, controls and the environment in the entire development process of the analyzed context. Flight safety is strongly interrelated with the organizational and technical-operational development of the context where it is also a fundamental part, being linked in a complex way to the same changes in the aeronautical system.

The topics of the session will include, but will not limited the following:

• Avionics;
• Structural defects and investigation;
• Aerodynamics and flight mechanics;
• Predictive tools;
• Human Factor modelling;
• Operational Fatigue;
• Simulation on applications fields and operative interactions;
• Logistical security for out-of-area operations;
• Human-machine interface.

Michele Buonsanti - Aggregate professor until 1 November 2023, then retired from the DICEAM Department where he is in charge of holding courses on Safety Models (of flight) and Procedures and Safety of Air Navigation. Already a full Researcher of materials and fracture mechanics, he has developed research topics on structural integrity, through agreements with Italian Air Force at the Pratica di Mare Flight Experimental Center investigating low-energy impacts on Eurofighter aircraft.
In the last 15 years interests have been in analytical modeling for flight safety frameworks. Qualified by the military air force as a flight safety officer and investigator, he is a CRM instructor and active pilot. He usually teaches at the A.M. interested in active and reactive modeling at the basis of pre or post flight accident investigations. He is a member of the Board of IFSC (Italian Fight Safety Committee) as well as AIDAA (Aeronautics and Aerospace Italian Association) and AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Aerospace). Again Military Aeronautics study center Ce.SMA and from 2020 NATO experts associated with the Integrated Technological Group of the 5th Department of the Defense General Staff to support the activities of direction and coordination of scientific and technological research of Defense interest.