The next generation of rotary-wing platforms is being developed to meet the challenges of civil mobility demands, providing increased speed, range and productivity to bridge the gap between conventional helicopters and fixed-wing platforms. The novelty and increased complexity of these platforms demand a great deal of testing. This is where the ATTILA project comes
An update on the ATTILA project as four weeks ago we published about the successful completion of dynamic characterization tests of the wind tunnel model. It's been a long road with many trials and a few errors, but in August the test team was finally able to see its aeroelastic tiltrotor testbed in action
Another milestone for the ATTILA project! The DLR-Institut für Aeroelastik from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Royal NLR recently completed a comprehensive ground vibration test (GVT) of the ATTILA tiltrotor wind tunnel model at the large low-speed facility (LLF) of DNW - German-Dutch Wind Tunnels. The GVTs are aimed at the dynamic
Case: ATTILA: Advanced Testbed for Tiltrotor Aeroelastics An article about the ATTILA project was published on the NRL website. News link: https://www.nlr.org/case/case-attila-advanced-testbed-for-tiltrotor-aeroelastics/
We are all excited to share that Alessandro Cocco, who has been working at the multibody and coupled fluid-structure simulations of ATTILA for Politecnico di Milano since the beginning of the project, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis cum laude on tiltrotor aeroelasticity. Alessandro made the best possible use of our multibody solver, MBDyn, and
AIAA's Aerospace America Year in Review (YIR) describes the ATTILA project and its status in a December 2022 article about Aerospace Design and Structures, "Advancing a new generation of tiltrotors". See the full article here: https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/year-in-review/advancing-a-new-generation-of-tiltrotors/
The ATTILA Team presented a paper at the 47th European Rotorcraft Forum, recently held online (September 7-9, 2021) by ERF’s UK representatives. The paper illustrates the results of the whirl flutter simulations performed so far by NLR and POLIMI in support of the development of the wind tunnel model. Two independent multibody dynamics solvers,
To enable fast and focused growth, the integrated photonics sensing activities of Technobis, a member of the ATTILA Consortium, have changed their name to PhotonFirst, which now operates independently from its ‘mothership’ Technobis Group since January 1st. PhotonFirst is a leading integrated photonics sensing systems supplier for advanced applications in aerospace, automotive, medical, high-tech
ATTILA project News Ten months from the Kick-Off meeting, in September 2020, WP1 of the ATTILA project has been closed by two online design review meetings that have involved all the consortium partners. The conceptual design of the wind tunnel model as carried out by NLR aims for minimum complexity and structural nonlinearity to
ATTILA project Kick Off MeetingThe ATTILA (Advanced Testbed for TILtrotor Aeroelastics) project is aimed at the design, manufacture and testing of an advanced testbed for aeroelastic wind tunnel testing of tiltrotor aircraft. The testbed will consist of a suitably instrumented aeroelastically scaled cantilevered half-wing with powered nacelle-proprotor system. After design and manufacturing, the ATTILA testbed
