Posted on 10/01/2010Source: NASA Tech Briefs Cover Story: From Aircraft Wings to Wind Turbine Blades: NASA Software 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...
Posted on 5/10/2010 Source: Windpower Engineering: Building a better blade The first objective of most any large wind turbine blade design project is to get to the lightest weight possible. At NASA Langley Research Center, where I helped develop the code that later...
Posted on 3/1/2010 Source: Digital Engineering Build a lighter, stronger, cheaper airframe—with fewer components—and the world will beat a path to your door. Put the right tools into the right hands and you’re halfway there. Adept Ltd. used Inventor 3D solid modeling...
Posted on 3/1/2010 Source: Industry Week NASA Tool Could Cross Over to Manufacturing HyperSizer analysis optimizes design architectures, predicts performance of composite materials. Read...
Posted on 3/1/2010 Source: Time Compression Analysis Software Goes Beyond Elemental Don’t guess at product optimization and manufacturability. There’s plenty of analysis software to help ensure it. Read...
