MBDyn serves as the basis
of a multibody analysis capability dedicated to micro-mechanical systems,
not limited to aerial vehicles.
Undergraduate/graduate students: theses related to this project available!
More information here.
Tesisti/dottorandi: tesi disponibili su questo progetto!Ulteriori informazioni qui.
News
2011-07-04:
P. Masarati, M. Morandini, G. Quaranta, R. Vescovini,
"Multibody Analysis of a Micro-Aerial Vehicle Flapping Wing",
Multibody 2011,
July 4-7, 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
2011-06-27:
P. Masarati, M. Morandini, G. Quaranta, D. Chandar, B. Roget, J. Sitaraman,
"Tightly Coupled CFD/Multibody Analysis of Flapping-Wing Micro-Aerial Vehicles",
29th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference,
June 27-30, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
2011-06-21:
MBDyn 1.4.0 is the first public release of the shell element.
2010-09-03:
Pierangelo Masarati delivers a C++ wrapper
of the external structural mapping force element
peer library for fluid-structure interaction,
to be released soon
(eventually released with MBDyn 1.3.17).
2010-08-20:
MAV semi-span wing flapping in vacuo
here
(a work in progress).
2010-05-25:
M. Mattaboni, M. Benedict, P. Masarati, and I. Chopra,
"MAV-Scale Cycloidal Rotor Multibody Aeroelastic Analysis",
IMSD 2010,
Lappeenranta, Finland, May 25-27, 2010.
2010-05-17:
Pierangelo Masarati delivers a generic
external structural mapping force element
and its companion peer library in C and Python,
for fluid-structure interaction, to be released soon
(eventually released with MBDyn 1.3.16).
2010-05-01:
Marco Morandini and Riccardo Vescovini deliver a geometrically exact 4-node shell element, to be released soon
(eventually released with MBDyn 1.4.0).
2010-04-12:
M. Benedict, M. Mattaboni, I. Chopra, and P. Masarati,
"Aeroelastic Analysis of a MAV-Scale Cycloidal Rotor",
51th SDM Conference,
AIAA-2010-2888, April 12-15, 2010, Orlando, Florida.
2010-04-08:
Jinwei Shen (NIA) gives an introductory presentation about MBDyn
to an Army Research Laboratory (ARL) team at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Joppa, MD.
2010-03-15:
the MBDyn team at Politecnico di Milano is awarded a grant by ARL
to support the investigation of avian-based flapping wing aeroelasticity
(duration: 1 year).
2009-08-01:
Mattia Mattaboni delivers an unsteady aerodynamics module and a cycloidal rotor induced velocity model.
