ENGINEERING.COM / STAFF WRITERIn May 2020, NASA Spinoff recognized M4 Engineering, a California aerospace engineering firm, for its creation of M4 Structures Studio (M4SS), a software program that allows companies…
BY NASA SPINOFF / STAFF WRITERPicture an airplane. What you imagine is probably what most commercial airliners look like, a design that has been improved and tweaked—but not really overhauled—for…
Authors Tyler Winter, Joe Robinson, Mark Sutton, Julius Chua, Armando Gamez, and Thomas Nascenzi Introduction Accurate structural weight prediction for novel vehicle configurations is an important and often neglected aspect…
Learn how a Nastran linear-elastic analysis can be corrected to take into account nonlinear material behavior. Take advantage of the benefits of a linear analysis without sacrificing precision. Challenges: Time…
Long Beach, CA, 5/5/20– M4 Engineering Inc., a leading Aerospace Engineering firm in the field of conceptual aircraft design, analysis, and development received recognition in an article from NASA Spinoff,…
Authors Tyler Winter, Brent Scheneman, Donovan Fung, and Phillip Chung Introduction Many critical challenges currently exist for designing, developing, and analyzing physics-based conceptual aircraft design tools. One challenge of particular…
Authors Steven Doyle, Joe Robinson, Vananh Ho, Grant Ogawa, and Myles Baker Introduction Conventional aircraft wing structures consist of skins over a network of substructure elements that are approximately straight…
Authors Tyler Winter, Brent Scheneman, Jose Marquez, Jesse Sidhu Introduction Many critical challenges currently exist for designing, developing, and analyzing physics-based conceptual aircraft design tools. Often engineers struggle with determining…
Authors Tyler Winter, Jose Marquez, Brent Scheneman Introduction Many critical challenges currently exist for designing, developing, and analyzing physics-based conceptual aircraft design tools. Often engineers struggle with determining the appropriate…
Authors Kevin Roughen, Joe Robinson, Myles Baker Introduction A class of air vehicles known as high altitude long endurance (HALE) has gained interest for a broad range of applications. Endurance…
