Strain Rate Dependen 3-Point Bending Test and Simulation of a Unidirectional Carbon/Epoxy Composite

In order to use composite materials in automotive production while ensuring that passengers safety it is crucial to fully understand the strain rate effect on their mechanical properties.This study implements a strain rate dependent 3-point bending test setup for a high rate servo-hydraulic testing machine. A finite element model to simulate...

Determination of the attitude state of space debris objects based on Satellite Laser Ranging, using Envisat as a test case

The attitude state of the passive Envisat satellite (ESA) has been estimated before using various techniques like Satellite Laser Ranging, radar and using light-curves. This research focusses on the use of Satellite Laser Ranging. Due to the relatively large (meter scale) offset between the center-of-mass of the satellite and the reflector where...

Cost Effective Attitude Control Validation Test Methods for CubeSats Applied to PolarCube

The problem of testing the performance of an attitude control system presents new challenges and opportunities when conducted on a CubeSat scale. This is the result of drastic reduction in physical properties (size, mass, torques) as well as project resources (funds, manpower, time) when compared to traditional satellite programs. This thesis...

Continuous rating of perceived visual-inertial motion incoherence during driving simulation

Motion cueing algorithms (MCA) are used in motion simulation to map the inertial vehicle motions onto the simulator motion space. To increase fidelity of the motion simulation, these MCAs are tuned to minimize the perceived incoherence between the visual and inertial motion cues. Despite time-invariant MCA dynamics the incoherence is not...

Generic Analysis Methods for Gas Turbine Engine Performance: The development of the gas turbine simulation program GSP

Numerical modelling and simulation have played a critical role in the research and development towards today’s powerful and efficient gas turbine engines for both aviation and power generation. The simultaneous progress in modelling methods, numerical methods, software development tools and methods, and computer platform technology has provided...

Engine Health Monitoring Demonstrator based on GPA: A Gas Path Analysis GPA concept developed using the Gas turbine Simulation Program (GSP)

This report describes the work conducted by TUD for WP 4.2.7 of the ESPOSA project for the development of Gas Path Analysis (GPA) based Engine Health Monitoring (EHM) concepts for the BE1 and BE2 engine designs. Models developed with the Gas turbine Simulation Program GSP have been used for the development and for the simulation of deteriorated...

The Effects of Specific Force on Self-Motion Perception in a Simulation Environment

Perception Coherence Zones in Vehicle Simulation

A perception coherence zone (PCZ) designates the range of inertial motion levels that, although not being a one-to-one match with the visual motion levels, are still considered by the subjects as being part of a coherent movement. Two types of PCZs were studied: amplitude PCZs and phase PCZs. Amplitude and phase coherences zones were measured...

Engine simulation models for the cycles of BE1 and report on obtained performance data: Model development with the Gas turbine Simulation Program (GSP)

report describes the work conducted by TUD for WP 1.3.3 of the ESPOSA project for the development of the BE1 engine simulation model in NLR’s Gas turbine Simulation Program, GSP. Results include simulation results, validation and the GSP model project files. The model is based on simulated data from PBS Velká Bíteš, Czech Republic, (PBS). The...

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Linear Time-Varying Pilot-Vehicle System Parameters

Stochastic simulation of delay propagation: Improving schedule stability at Kenya Airways

A large challenge for passenger airlines is the design of a profitable flight schedule, for example at Kenya Airways who operates a highly connected hub-and-spoke network. The goal of this research is create a fundamental insight into the stochastic nature of delay propagation in a passenger hub-and-spoke network which allows airlines to...

A Sensitivity Study into Strapdown Airborne Gravimetry

Airborne gravimetry is an important tool for the geodesy and geophysics communities. Able to provide medium to high-resolution measurements over large areas, it is the link between the low-resolution satellite measurements and expensive terrestrial campaigns, especially in remote areas. To explore the potential of airborne gravimetry, the...

A multi-body dynamics approach to a cable simulator for kites

For the purpose of ultimately building a fully dynamic simulation of kites, an investigation is launched into a viable model of the cable with which the kite is attached to the ground. In the model proposed in this paper, only the slow modes of motion are taken into account due to the fact that only the slow motions have a real effect on the...

Simulation Fidelity Theory and Practice

Simulation fidelity is an intrinsic element of any simulation system, one that all its developers and users have to deal with one way or the other. It is commonly recognized by the modeling and simulation community that simulation fidelity is an essential vehicle in properly assessing the validity and credibility of simulation results....

Novel H2 manufacturing routes. Simulation and thermodynamic analysis of membrane based processes

Nowadays hydrogen is gaining more and more attention mainly because it is generally regarded as an important future fuel. Although H2 can be produced from a wide variety of resources using a range of different technologies, natural gas is generally preferred and will remain in the near future the major feedstock for the manufacture of H2....

Rotorcraft responses to atmospheric turbulence

Pilot's perception and control of aircraft motions

Three Dimensional Simulation of Fabric Draping