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The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles
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Future generations of NASA and U.S. Air Force vehicles will require lighter mass while being subjected to higher loads and more extreme service conditions over longer time periods than the present generation. Current approaches for certification, fleet management and sustainment are largely based on statistical distributions of material properties, heuristic design philosophies, physical testing and assumed similitude between testing and operational conditions and will likely be unable to address these extreme requirements. To address the shortcomings of conventional approaches, a fundamental paradigm shift is needed. This paradigm shift, the Digital Twin, integrates ultra-high fidelity simulation with the vehicle s on-board integrated vehicle health management system, maintenance history and all available historical and fleet data to mirror the life of its flying twin and enable unprecedented levels of safety and reliability.
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The paper proposes the Digital Twin paradigm—an integrated multiphysics, multiscale, probabilistic simulation of an as-built vehicle using best physical models, sensor updates, fleet history, and IVHM data—to mirror the life of its flying twin and improve certification, fleet management, and sustainment. It argues conventional factor-of-safety, similitude, and inspection approaches are inadequate for future NASA and U.S. Air Force vehicles with lighter mass, higher loads, and longer extreme service.
Key findings
- Conventional certification and sustainment rely on factors-of-safety, similitude, worst-case scenarios, and fleet leaders; factors can be as large as 2.0 depending on material and configuration, a service life factor of 4.0 is applied to well-characterized spaceflight structures, and known flaws must show a safety factor of 1.5 against fracture.
- The Digital Twin integrates ultra-high fidelity physical models, on-board IVHM sensor data, maintenance history, and historical/fleet data via data mining and text mining; it continuously forecasts vehicle health, remaining useful life, and probability of mission success, and can recommend mission profile changes or activate self-healing mechanisms.
- Near-term opportunities include the AFRL Digital Twin: Spiral 1 using the F-15 as a testbed, and a NASA approach focused on a small highly critical non-redundant component such as a MEMS.
- Expected advantages include decreased system weight by reducing reliance on statistical distributions, heuristic design philosophies, physical testing, and assumed similitude, plus increased reliability through continuous monitoring and mitigation of degradation and anomalous events.
Methods
- Conceptual/vision paper, not an experimental study; it presents the Digital Twin paradigm and requirements, with examples drawn from NASA standards and handbooks including NASA-STD-5001A, NASA-STD-5019, and NASA-HDBK-5010.
- No sample, dataset, or statistical analysis is reported; the paper discusses conventional approaches, Digital Twin attributes, near-term opportunities, advantages, and influence on national goals.
- Illustrative figures and tables are used to motivate the paradigm, such as an STS payload launch/landing spectrum and upper-bound fatigue crack growth rate curves estimated as three standard deviations above mean values.
Limitations
- The paper states the Digital Twin is an ambitious concept “unlikely to attain maturity for many decades,” so a series of intermediate steps is required.
- The paper states future vehicles may encounter conditions that cannot be foreseen, and long-duration space missions may make conventional inspection and maintenance impossible.
- Evident from the text: no quantitative validation, implementation results, or performance metrics for a Digital Twin are reported; the work is a concept and roadmap paper.
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“When similitude is violated, probabilistic methods break down as readily as those based on factors-of-safety.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Introduction
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“Current approaches for certification, fleet management and sustainment are largely based on statistical distributions of material properties, heuristic design philosophies, physical testing and assumed similitude between testing and operational conditions and will likely be unable to address these extreme requirements.”
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“Existing methodologies for vehicle certification, fleet management and sustainment are largely based on similitude and a heuristic understanding of the effects of operational and anomalous conditions on the structural health, safety and performance of a vehicle.”
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“Current approaches for certification, fleet management and sustainment are largely based on statistical distributions of material properties, heuristic design philosophies, physical testing and assumed similitude between testing and operational conditions and will likely be unable to address these extreme requirements.”
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“Even current probabilistic or reliability methodologies are inadequate because they are based on assumed similitude between the circumstances in which the underlying statistics were obtained and the environment in which the vehicle operates.”
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“Moreover, they may not be sufficient to address the future extreme requirements of some future NASA and U.S. Air Force vehicles.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Table 1: Sample of Publicly Available Standards and Handbooks
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“Additionally, compounding of factors-of-safety is pervasive and may lead to unnecessarily heavy structures and reduced performance without necessarily improving the actual safety of the vehicle or the probability of mission success.”
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“Inspection schedules are typically determined from experience with similar vehicles that have performed similar missions.”
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“Often, inspection is performed based on experience with the fleet leader, the vehicle in the fleet that experienced the most flights or the worst degradation.”
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“Thus, the ability to fully understand degradation and anomalous events and foresee previously unknown unknowns may represent the difference between mission success and mission failure.”
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“If, for example, unacceptable degradation of a component was found during an inspection of the fleet leader, it may be decided that all vehicles of that class be inspected immediately regardless of the specific history of each vehicle.”
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“An extreme case of codified conservatism is discussed in NASA-HDBK-5010 10 , where separate conservatisms for crack size, applied loads, material properties, and analysis are discussed for”
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“It will also decrease system weight by reducing reliance on statistical distributions of material properties, heuristic design philosophies, physical testing and assumed similitude between testing and operational conditions.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Advantages Over Conventional Approaches
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“According to NASA-STD-5001A 1 , a service life factor of 4.0 is applied to”
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“Known cracks in fracture critical hardware require special treatment wherein upper bounds for crack size estimate accounting for”
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“Finally, analyses of known flaws must show that the component has a service life factor of four and a safety factor of 1.5 against fracture.”
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“Among these steps is the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Digital Twin: Spiral 1 17 , a plan to integrate existing state-of-the-art technologies, benchmark current capabilities and identify gaps using components from an existing U.S. Air Force vehicle, specifically, the F-15, as a testbed.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Identification of Near-Term Opportunities
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“Complex missions, particularly those where external support is difficult or impossible, will necessitate complete real-time management of complex materials, structures and systems that will ultimately lead to”
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“By combining all of this information, the Digital Twin continuously forecasts the health of the vehicle or system, the remaining useful life and the probability of mission success.”
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“Unlike those individual visions, the vision for the Digital Twin integrates the broad range of technologies with a singular focus.”
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“In all of these cases,”
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“If various best-physics (i.e., the most accurate, physically realistic and robust) models can be integrated with one another and with on-board sensor suites, they will form a basis for certification of vehicles by simulation and for real-time, continuous, health management of those vehicles during their missions.”
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“As a result, demands on structural materials will be greatly increased and structural margins will necessarily be decreased.”
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“As a virtual instantiation of a flying vehicle, the Digital Twin is expected to be able to experience every event that its flying twin experiences.”
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“Because the vehicles needed for future extreme missions are unlikely to be developed using existing material forms, the design and development of new enabling (e.g., multifunctional, nanostructured, ultra-durable) materials is required and is well aligned with the NRC's ICME roadmap.”
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“The application of continuum fracture mechanics analyses, including NASGRO fatigue crack growth analysis (see JSC 22267B 6 ), is the foundation of much of the codified fracture control methodology.”
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“The ability to assess the evolution of defects is a critical element within the Digital Twin's on-board IVHM system and is well aligned with the NRC's advocacy for developments in Materials State Awareness.”
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“The latter approach requires a factor-of-safety for yield that is higher than the factor-of-safety used for prototype testing.”
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“The Digital Twin can also predict system response to safety critical events and uncover previously unknown issues before they become critical by comparing predicted and actual responses.”
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“Because of its ability to mirror the life of a specific vehicle in an as-built state, the Digital Twin will necessarily revolutionize certification, fleet management and sustainment.”
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“Fracture critical hardware requires the additional imposition of damage tolerance requirements (see, for example, NASA-STD-5019 2 ).”
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“However, such an ambitious concept is unlikely to attain maturity for many decades, so a series of intermediate steps is required.”
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“Thus, the extensive legacy of historical flight information incorporated in the various standards and handbooks that were based on decades of aircraft and spacecraft design experience, will likely be insufficient to either certify future extreme vehicles or to guarantee mission success.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Future generations of vehicles will rely on increasingly complex, heterogeneous and multifunctional material forms with increasingly complex failure modes.
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“These factors vary widely depending on circumstance and can be as large as 2.0 depending on the material and local structural configuration.”
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“Additionally, worst-case limit loads for the mission must be used to compute the far field stress state at the location of the detected crack.”
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“Additionally, an understanding of the exact state of the structure of the vehicle or its systems, including the existence of defects at the microstructural and, possibly, the atomistic scale, is required as a baseline for ultra-high fidelity simulations.”
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“Additionally, it will enable mission managers to make knowledgeable decisions regarding the consequences of possible in-flight changes to a vehicle's mission.”
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“Once the vehicle is launched, the Digital Twin will increase the reliability of the flying vehicle because of its ability to continuously monitor and mitigate degradation and anomalous events.”
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“Because of the apparent scatter in material response under cyclic and creep loading, the corresponding factors are even larger.”
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“Many of the technologies critical for the Digital Twin are currently being developed under related visions for multi-scale and multi-physics modeling, structural health management, highperformance computing and others.”
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“Finally, the systems on board the Digital Twin are capable of mitigating damage or degradation by activating self-healing mechanisms or by recommending changes in mission profile to decrease loadings thereby increasing both the life span and the probability of mission success.”
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“However, they tend to be reactive rather than proactive and are often based on heuristic experience, worst-case scenarios and fleet leaders rather than on the specific material, structural configuration and usage of an individual vehicle.”
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“The handbook requires analysts to use material properties corresponding to the lower bound of fracture toughness and the upper bound of fatigue crack growth rate (da/dN vs. ΔK) as shown in Figure 2.”
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“Upper bounds of fatigue crack growth rate curves are either visually estimated or statistically estimated as being three standard deviations above the mean values.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Table 1: Sample of Publicly Available Standards and Handbooks
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“By replacing conventional engineering practices with an understanding of the degradation of an individual vehicle or vehicle system, the paradigm of the Digital Twin will impact the way that physical items ranging from micro-devices to civil infrastructure are developed, certified and maintained.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Influence on National Goals
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“In addition to its prominence in the recently-published roadmaps of NASA's Office of Chief Technologist (OCT) [15][16] and plans of the Air Force Research Laboratory [17][18] , the Digital Twin paradigm can provide focus to the recent advocacy of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Research Council (NRC) in the areas of Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) 19 , Integrated”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Influence on National Goals
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“By exercising such ultra-high fidelity approaches on flight hardware, the shortcomings of the existing state-of-the-art in multiscale modeling, in-situ experimentation and material state awareness will be highlighted.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Identification of Near-Term Opportunities
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“Here, the crack size assumed for analysis (2c A ) is a combination of the NDE-detected crack dimensions (2c D ) and an adjustment based on the NDE detection capability (2c N ).”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Table 1: Sample of Publicly Available Standards and Handbooks
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“Potential spin-offs from the development of the Digital Twin span the breadth of the Nation's industrial and manufacturing sectors, infrastructure and development of nanotechnology.”
§ The Digital Twin Paradigm for Future NASA and U.S. Air Force Vehicles > Influence on National Goals
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The paper relies on this without support.
Future generations of NASA and U.S. Air Force vehicles will require lighter mass while being subjected to higher loads and more extreme service conditions over longer time periods than the present generation.
“Future generations of NASA and U.S. Air Force vehicles will require lighter mass while being subjected to higher loads and more extreme service conditions over longer time periods than the present generation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Future vehicles will have little direct precedent to follow, and in some cases (e.g., long duration space missions) the vehicle may be impossible to inspect and maintain in the conventional sense.
“Unlike the methods used to insure safety and reliability of existing vehicles that have a clear and wellunderstood legacy, many future vehicles will have little direct precedent to follow, and in some cases (e.g., long duration space missions) the vehicle may be impossible to inspect and maintain in the conventional sense.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Future generations of vehicles will rely on increasingly complex, heterogeneous and multifunctional material forms with increasingly complex failure modes.
“Future generations of vehicles will rely on increasingly complex, heterogeneous and multifunctional material forms with increasingly complex failure modes.”
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The extensive physical testing that provided the confidence needed to assure the success of previous missions has become increasingly expensive to perform.
“Additionally, the extensive physical testing that provided the confidence needed to assure the success of previous missions has become increasingly expensive to perform.”
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The consequences of failure during a long-duration space mission, where the vehicle is far from home, will almost certainly be catastrophic.
“Moreover, the consequences of failure during a long-duration space mission, where the vehicle is far from home, will almost certainly be catastrophic.”
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The Digital Twin concept is unlikely to attain maturity for many decades.
“However, such an ambitious concept is unlikely to attain maturity for many decades, so a series of intermediate steps is required.”
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“Consequently, DT consists of three parts, which include the physical product, virtual product, and the communication platform between them (Glaessgen & Stargel 2012).”
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“This makes these methods more reactive than proactive [31].”
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“An extreme case of codified conservatism is discussed in NASA-HDBK-5010 10”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Glaessgen, E., & Stargel, D.
- Affiliations
- Langley Research Center (US)
- United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (US)
- Venue
- 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference 20th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference 14th AIAA
- Published
- 2012-04-23
- OpenAlex
- W2046074714
- Semantic Scholar
- 733d40c04be482d38dbd21f82b81e0fc890b6669
- Cited by
- 2,404
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 214 · 2025: 332 · 2024: 451 · 2023: 381 · 2022: 342 · 2021: 278 · 2020: 211 · 2019: 108 · 2018: 48 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 11.20
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Digital Transformation in Industry
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Engineering and Test Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
- Keywords
- digital twin, integrated vehicle health management, aircraft certification, fleet management, program sustainability, material property variation, maintenance history, safety and reliability
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