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Systems Engineering Portfolio
 Passive, Adaptive Structures
Changing Aerodynamics
Passive, adaptive structures are designed to provide a tailored, nonlinear, passive response to changing aerodynamic conditions. The tailored response permits a structure to maintain a baseline shape during typical operations but to adapt its shape under changing load conditions. Depending on the application, this technology offers the potential to increase lifecycle maintainability of the system, reduce structural weight, increase overall system performance, and reduce damage and structural fatigue resulting from undesirable loading conditions.
Passive, adaptive structures represent a completely different approach to tailored structures design, offering the potential for large or small high shape-change responses, depending on the application. The ultimate goal of this technology is to incorporate adaptability while reducing structural weight. In designing and fabricating passive, adaptive structures, CRG leverages more than five years of research and experience across multiple industries and applications as well as more than ten years of experience in the design of advanced materials to support adaptive structures.
Benefits:
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Increased system performance
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Increased mission and system reliability
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Reduced susceptibility to damage under
undesirable aerodynamic loading conditions
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Reduction in structural weight
Applications
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Aerospace structures
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High-altitude, long-endurance air vehicles
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Wind turbine blades
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Marine structures
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Sporting goods
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Civil structures
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