Abstract

Recently, there has been a significant interest in the use of composites for marine applications because of their higher strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios, better corrosion characteristics, and the ability to be elastically tailored to improve hydrodynamic and/or structural performance. The objective of this work is to review advances made, and discuss current challenges, related to the design and modeling of advanced composite marine propulsors. The areas of focus include 1) the design and application of composite marine propellers, 2) the numerical modeling of the fluid-structure interaction responses and potential failure mechanisms of composite marine propellers, and 3) the scaling of the fluid-structure interaction responses and failure mechanisms of composite marine propellers.

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