Meet our SIMULIA Champion Ismael Rivero, who is a Structural Engineer at Airbus, a company known for its commercial airliners such as the A380, the largest passenger airliner in the world.

Rivero, whose job includes performing analysis on simulations to assess the structural integrity of aircraft, has worked on the A380, but he mainly works in Airbus’ Defense and Space division, a lesser-known unit of the company that manufactures military aircraft as well as space systems like satellites. He is most proud of his work on the A380 as well as the A400M, a military transport aircraft that plays an important role in tactical, strategic and humanitarian missions.

“For all engineers working in structural analysis, one of the moments you are most proud of is when you have designed, calculated and simulated the structure of your aircraft,” he says. “Then you go to the final test, a physical test of the aircraft, and the behavior of the physical structure is the same as that you have simulated.”

We will be getting to know some of our individual SIMULIA Champions in a series of blogs, finding out more about their history – and future – with the technology. Read the full interview with Ismael Rivero on the SIMULIA blog.

https://blogs.3ds.com/simulia/meet-simulia-champion-ismael-rivero/