At ADOPTECH, a primary focus is to develop
new technologies and transition them to industry. The list below
provides some background on the various technologies currently
pursued at ADOPTECH.
Research has shown that optimal fiber paths exist which can
improve the performance of laminates under basic loadings. ADOPTECH
personel have been involved with Fiber Steering research for
over 10 years. Current funding from NASA aims to further develop
the potential of this technology.
Recent efforts to minimize
the cost of a Boost PFC (Power Factor Correction) circuit with
EMI Filter were extremely successful. ADOPTECH is currently applying
the optimization capabilities of DARWIN
to other power electronic components.
Reliability-based design uses probability theory and statistics
to account for variability in the loads, geometry, material
properties, and uncertainties due to modeling and human error.
Since reliability-based design uses more rigorous models for
uncertainties than traditional deterministic design, components
or systems can be designed with more consistent safety levels
than deterministic design. These designs are safer and/or more
efficient than their deterministic counterparts. Benefits of
reliability-based design include the following:
Avoid over-design thus saving weight and design cycle cost
Avoid under-design, predict premature failure and save lives
Identify key random variables, which helps reduce weight
and design cycle cost
Global/Local optimization methodology
allows important local details to be incorporated into the optimization
of large complex systems. The basic idea behind the global/local
methodology is the decomposition of the overall design problem
into two different levels: a global design level and a local design
level. ADOPTECH continues to research and add to existing Global/Local
capabilities.
Cellular Automata (CA)
is a methodology used to solve structural analysis and design
problems. CA algorithms are inherintly parallel, and are therefore
well suited to a parallel computer architechure. ADOPTECH has
demonstrated CA for two-dimensional linear and nonlinear elastic
structures, and efficiency improvements have been demonstrated.
CA methods, when applied to more complex geometries such as three-dimensional
structures, may provide a revolutionary technique for structural
design.
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