COMPOSITE ANALYSIS AND
STRUCTURAL SIZING SOFTWARE
STRUCTURAL SIZING SOFTWARE
HyperSizer Comes Back to Earth with Green Energy Applications.
You might think a wind turbine would have more in common with a plane’s propeller than an aircraft wing, but wind blades actually behave a lot more like wings than props. This fact has enabled a valuable spinoff from aerospace to wind energy involving HyperSizer, the first software that NASA ever allowed to be commercialized as part of the Agency’s ongoing effort to transfer technology to U.S. business and industry... Read the full story...
Striking a critical balance between low weight and high strength.
Windpower Engineering's Cover Story this month takes us on a tour of the necessary elements in building a better Wind Turbine Blade. Weight is of tremendous importance when designing wind-turbine blades because a lighter blade uses less material, is easier to manufacture and transport, and has lower fatigue loads. Read the full story...
HyperSizer Sizing Software allows rapid analysis of candidate composite architecture for highly loaded and weight-sensitive launch vehicle.
Collier Research is part of the NASA team that aims to determine the optimum structural concepts on Ares V with HyperSizer for composite design and analysis, selecting the best composite materials and margins of safety for the lightest possible structure. Entire structure was optimized for "ply-compatibility" finding the most practical manufacturable composite layups as well. Read the full story...
