Research related to MBDyn

MBDyn has been developed to serve as an analysis tool for rotorcraft research. It has been used in the past, and is currently used, in a number of research projects, partly funded by the “Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali” (formerly Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale) of the University “Politecnico di Milano” and partly funded by the industry and the national and European Institutions. Research performed by independent institutions, where MBDyn plays an important role, is also listed.

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Past and Current Projects

• [2019-2024] ATTILA - Advanced Testbed for TILtrotor Aeroelastics

  Grant agreement no. 863418

• [2013-2014] CROP - Cycloidal Rotor Optimized for Propulsion

  Grant agreement no. 323047

• [2010-2013] ARISTOTEL - Aircraft and Rotorcraft Pilot Couplings - Tools and Techniques for Alleviation and Detection

  Contract Number 266073

• [2010-…] Fluid-Structure Interaction: TURNS

  MBDyn is being interfaced to TURNS, a compressible URANS solver developed by Jay Sitaraman, University of Wyoming.

• [2008-…] MBMAC

  MBDyn represents the core of MBMAC - MultiBody Microsystems Analysis Code within MAST/CTA, in cooperation with University of Maryland’s Microsystem Mechanics Center

• [2008-…] Blender & MBDyn

  Graphical User Interface for MBDyn based on blender.
  Author: Doug Baldwin Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/blenderandmbdyn/

• [2007-…] Fluid-Structure Interaction: EDGE

  MBDyn is being interfaced to EDGE, a compressible URANS solver developed by FOI (Swedish Defense Research Agency).
  Author: Luca Cavagna

• […-2007] Package mbdyn

  This package motivation is to turn MBDyn into a multibody dynamics library for Python, so then the user communicates with objects during the whole simulation.
  Author: André Espaze (ded DOT espaze AT laposte.net)

• [2007-2009] Blended MBDyn (discontinued)

  Graphical User Interface for MBDyn based on blender.
  Author: John Kollman (mbdynug AT osengineer.com)

• [2007-…] Wind Turbines An open effort; partially sponsored by:
  • The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Con il contributo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese.
  • REpower Systems AG
  • the SI PARTE! project

• [2006-…] LIGO

  MBDyn is used to model the seismic support of the LIGO experiment.
  Author: Valerio Boschi (vboschi AT ligo.caltech.edu)

• [2006-2010] NICETRIP

• Novel Innovative Competitive Effective Tilt Rotor Integrated Project

  Contract Number 030944

• [2006-2007] ANTASME - AdvaNced modelling Techniques for Aerospace SMEs A MATEO (Matching Technologies and Opportunities) project.

  ANTASME uses MBDyn to simulate the deployment of deformable satellites.
  MBDyn is being extended to use CppAD for automatic differentiation of Jacobian matrix contributions.

  

• [2005-…] Mechanical Systems Modeling (Sponsored by Hutchinson CdR)

• [2005-…] RPC - Rotorcraft-Pilot Coupling

• [2004-2008] Friendcopter - Environmentally Friendly Helicopter

  Contract Number AIP3-CT-2003-502773

• [2003-… (defunct)] LMS-DADS frontend

  by the PET Integrated Modeling and Test Environments Team at the Army Research Laboratory/Aeronautical Systems Center - Major Shared Resource Center (ARL/ASC-MSRC)

• [2003-…] RT-MBDyn

  Distributed real-time simulation of multibody systems at DIAPM.

• [2002-2003] Analisi dei carichi transitori su rotori di elicottero dovuti a raffica (Analysis of gust-induced transient loads on helicopter rotors)

  Agusta Research Contract 02/1250/FAV.

• [2002-2007] ADYN - Advanced European Tiltrotor Dynamics and Noise

  Contract Number G4RD-CT-2002-00773 (Project Number GRD1-2001-40126)

• [2000-2002] Integration of Hydraulic Servo-Actuators in Rotorcraft Aeroelasticity

  Agusta Research Contract NM-000/1505.

• [2000-2002] Effetti sulla stabilità a “whirl flutter” delle configurazioni di mozzo “gimbal” (Effects of the gimbal hub configuration on whirl flutter stability)

  Agusta Research Contract.

• [1999-2004+] 1Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for Multibody Formulation for Tiltrotor Aeroelastic Analysis

  

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