Abstract
Attempts to add the advanced technologies to aerospace composite structures like fan blade have been on in recent times to further improve its performance. As part of these efforts, it has been proposed that the blade morph feasibility could be studied by building and optimizing asymmetric lay up of composite plies inside the blade which will help generate enough passive morphing between max cruise and climb conditions of the flight. This will have a direct efficiency (Specific Fuel Consumption) benefit. This research describes the various ideas that were tried using in house-developed lay-up optimization code and Ansys commercial software to study the possibility of generating enough passive morphing in the blade. In the end, this report concludes that the required degree of passive morphing could not be generated using various ideas with passive morphing technology and only up to some extent of morphing is shown to be feasible using the technologies used here.
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