HyperWorks is a division of Case Study Composite Rotor Blade Analysis using Altair HyperWorks Overview As part of a senior design project – the design and analysis of a coaxial rotor craft – Christopher Van Damme, at the time of the project senior undergraduate student within the department of Engineering Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had to analyze a composite made helicopter rotor blade. In his analysis he had to employ Computer-Aided Engineering tools to cover the required studies regarding static, modal, frequency response, and dynamic analysis of the rotor. The CAE tools of choice were Altair‘s HyperWorks suite, mainly HyperMesh, the pre-processor of the suite, and Altair‘s FE-solver and optimization tool OptiStruct. Thanks to HyperMesh, a quick, high fide

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