Hoverworks Hovercraft Ducts
Gurit was awarded a contract from Isle of Wight based company Hoverworks for the structural design and build of a number of propeller ducts for their new BHT 130 hovercraft. Gurit used MSC Patran and MSC Laminate Modeller finite element analysis (FEA) software that enabled the fibre directions to be predicted, aiding stiffness and strength analyses of the structure to be undertaken.
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