Dr. Xin Liu, Assistant Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, has been awarded a Phase 2 STTR subcontract by AnalySwift for a NASA project.
Affordable space exploration beyond the lower Earth orbit will require innovative lightweight structural concepts. Tailorable composites are an innovative lightweight material that have the potential applications to exploration vehicles, space habitats, and other space hardware. The Smart Multiscale Mechanics Lab (SMML), led by Dr. Xin Liu, within UTARI’s Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM) has been awarded the subcontract from a NASA Phase II STTR grant by AnalySwift LLC. The project is to develop integrated, efficient computational framework and design tool for advanced tailorable composites.
It is computationally infeasible to perform design optimization of realistic aerospace structures using tailorable composites with highly customizable fiber paths. Dr. Liu’s team will develop ultra-efficient deep learning models to reduce the computational cost and facilitate the design optimization of realistic aerospace structures. The machine learning models will be integrated into a unified design framework and a new efficient high-fidelity Design tool for Advanced Tailorable Composites (DATC). Dr. Liu and his team was subcontracted on the Phase I by AnalySwift in June 2021.