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...
Posted on 12/31/2009Source: NASA Spinoff Magazine Originating Technology/NASA Contribution While working on designs for a new high-speed aircraft, a group of software engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center developed a program that helps create lighter weight...
Posted on 12/1/2009 Source: Mechanical Engineering The Ares V is NASA’s next generation space launch vehicle. In order to streamline the design process, NASA engineers paired finite element analysis software with special software that can verify the...
Posted on 10/1/2009 Source: Optimizing the Ares VSizing software allows rapid analysis of candidate composite architecture for highly loaded and weight-sensitive launch vehicle component. Design Results Increasing confidence in the technology has led to consideration...
Posted on 9/24/2009 Source: Insights Preliminary Design of NASA’s Ares V Launch Vehicle Optimized with HyperSizer for Abaqus NASA’s newest and largest space launch vehicle, the Ares V Heavy Lifter, includes three major composite structures: the payload shroud,...
