Revolutionary Methods to Reduce Conservatism in Design Loads

The PI would like to performing material testing and analyses to quantify the level of conservative associated with using static loads analyses for dyanmic load requirements to provide evidence to advocate for a new philosophy of dyanmic loads assessment.

NASA standard practrices uses static loads of dyanmics load requirements. There is very conservative and results to higher mass mechanical designs.

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