Development of a preliminary design tool for microsatellites structure in a concurrent engineering facility

This project deals with the work done in a Concurrent Design Facility environment in order to develop a new Matlab calculus tool for the structure subsystem of microsatellites. This tool is based on another simple Excel document which was able to do some calculus for a preliminary design of the main structure of a satellite, but then it has been improved in term of versatility and quality, type and number of results. Its capabilities have been compared with some FEM models created in Nastran