SBIR-STTR Award

The rapid expansion of the ORB aircraft market underscores the need to understand and quickly implement components made from advanced materials to achieve desired weight and performance characteristics. Components common to all ORBs are rotor blades. Building on AnalySwift's powerful VABS software for accurate and efficient simulation of helicopter rotor blades, AnalySwift will develop an integrated computational blade engineering (ICBE) framework for rapid insertion of high-performance composite blades into ORB vehicles. We will integrate VABS into a multibody dynamic code, wrapped with an optimization framework which will enable rapid design and optimization through comprehensive aeromechanical analysis. We will develop and validate this ICBE framework for design and manufacturing ORB blades using composites by performing testing of material coupons and manufacturing simulation of a typical ORB blade.