Posted on 1/24/2011 Source: Design News Armed with HyperSizer optimization software and FEA, Sandia pursues innovations in large wind turbine blade design, aiming for a balance between low weight and structural integrity. By many accounts, wind energy, a relative...
Posted on 1/20/2010 Source: Aerospace Engineering & Manufacturing A series of critical, full-scale, physical tests have recently been completed by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) at Langley Research Center accurately predicting the Composite Crew...
Posted on 1/10/2010 Source: NASA Composite Crew Module (CCM) For the past three years, the NESC has been evaluating a composite crew module as an alternative to the baseline Orion design. A tiger team was formed between Orion and the NESC team recently to compare...
Posted on 1/1/2010 Source: Maritime Reporter Engineering News HyperSizer: A software technology out of NASA holds promise for the shipbuilding and offshore energy markets HyperSizer is a structural sizing and design optimization tool that works in a feedback...