{"id":7191,"date":"2015-06-30T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Webinar-Light-weighting-Aircraft-Interiors\/ba-p\/305479"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:59:23","slug":"webinar-light-weighting-aircraft-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/webinar-light-weighting-aircraft-interiors\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Light-weighting Aircraft Interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>If you missed the Light-Weighting Aircraft Interiors webinar, you can catch up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/ResourceMain.aspx?resid=275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">recorded version<\/A> of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Engineering.com<\/A> presentation and see how Femap helps aircraft designers optimize cabin interiors to reduce weight and help keep operating costs low.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><BR \/>Co-presenter Dr. Charles Roche, structures integration manager at Pratt &amp; Whitney, discusses weight reduction challenges and trends in the aircraft industry giving a fascinating insight into the role simulation plays within aircraft design.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/14323i0688E1FE19E39556\/image-size\/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999\" alt=\"Femap Webinar\" title=\"Femap Webinar\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In the latter part of the presentation, Tyler Smithson, consultant with C&amp;D Zodiac, discusses the evolution of design to include new lighter weight materials with aircraft interior components and the value of simulation to reduce or even replace physical testing \u2013 citing an interesting if somewhat unusual example: the imploding lavatory!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/14324iB71E966311BF6C81\/image-size\/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999\" alt=\"Femap Webinar\" title=\"Femap Webinar\" \/><\/span><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed the Light-Weighting Aircraft Interiors webinar, you can catch up with a recorded version of this Engineering.com presentation and see how Femap helps aircraft designers optimize cabin i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,184],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-webinar","product-simcenter-femap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}