Jan 5, 2025
Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
A recent award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) brings together researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh University (Lehigh) under the Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of Alloy Structures (METALS) program. The team will research novel design tools for the simultaneous optimization of shape and compositional gradients in multi-material structures that complement new high-throughput materials testing techniques, with particular attention paid to the bladed disk (blisk) geometry commonly found in turbomachinery (including jet and rocket engines) as an exemplary challenge problem.
A DARPA-funded collaborative multi-university team pursues new AI-enhanced design tools and high-throughput testing methods for next-generation turbomachinery.