AnalySwift, LLC, a provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for composites, announced that Penn State has been participating in its Academic Partner Program (APP).
Penn Statehas been using AnalySwift’s VABS simulation software as well as the open source iVABS tool to improve the manufacturability of composite rotor blades used for helicopters, air mobility, and other rotorcraft.
The work is part of the Penn State Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE), a premier research and education hub at Penn State dedicated to advancing vertical lift technologies—such as helicopters, drones, and VTOL systems—in key areas like aeromechanics, flight dynamics, propulsion, acoustics, and survivability.
The APP offers participating universities no-cost licenses of engineering software programs VABS and SwiftComp so students, researchers, and faculty can leverage the tools in their academic research.
The VABS program is a general-purpose cross-sectional analysis tool for predicting structural beam properties and recovering 3D stresses, strains, and strengths of slender composite structures. It is a powerful tool for modeling composite rotorcraft (helicopter, air mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles) and wind turbine rotor blades, as well as other slender composite structures, such as propellers, landing gear, and high-aspect ratio wings.
iVABS is a VABS-based structural design framework, enables VABS for design and optimization, parametric studies, and uncertainty quantifications in a user-friendly way. This framework bundles PreVABS, VABS, GEBT, and third-party tool Dakota, along with Python for integration among these codes and other codes.
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10 April 2026
