The system design of the civil aircraft based on NASA systems engineering approach

With the development of science and technology, as well as the increasing demand for aircraft in the civil fields, the design of an aircraft has become more comprehensive with more disciplines involved, that requires not only the high performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the civil aircraft, but is also connected with the implementation of the professional and modern approaches. One of the relevant and effective approaches for the complex system design is systems engineering including the sequence of the activities that are used for NASA projects realization. In our work, we focused on the widely used NASA Systems Engineering techniques for creating successful systems, such as the logical decomposition models that should be applied for the civil aviation objects. The high-quality competent planning and realization of the life cycle stages “step-by-step” using the NASA Systems Engineering approach promote the avoiding of the mistakes and excessive costs. The universality of these methods allows meeting the requirements of the modern civil aircraft that primarily ensure the safety of the flight and meet the customer needs. © 2018, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.