SABRE officially finished on 31st May 2021 and the team met for the final time on 16th June to celebrate this very successful 4-year long project. Considerable achievements were made during this time in terms of advancing our understanding of the emissions reductions achievable with rotor morphing (5-11%) and the maturity of the morphing technologies […]

SABRE are pleased and proud to announce the release of our second project video which gives a full overview and explanation of the aims and achievements of this hugely successful project as it draws to a close on 31st May 2021. The video explores the necessity for, and the importance of, the research which has […]

An interview with SABRE Team member Andres Rivero Bracho was written by Matt Bone for the Bristol Composites Institute Newsletter, University of Bristol – and is set out in full below. Morphing Structures for Aerospace What are morphing structures and what development challenges need to be overcome? In the context of aerospace engineering, morphing refers […]

In the closing weeks of 2020 activity by all SABRE partners reaches fever pitch as work is done to get the morphing technology demonstrators ready for testing in early 2021. This programme of experimental testing represents the culmination of all the work that has been carried out during the project – turning the analysis into […]

Like so many things across the globe, work on the SABRE project has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the SABRE partners (based in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy) have experienced long periods of lockdown since early to mid-March 2020 and the entire project team has had to work from […]

Huge Congratulations from the SABRE project consortium to one of our newly recruited Researchers, Andres Rivero Bracho who has just won the prestigious “Dyson award for outstanding research towards a more sustainable future” at the STEM for Britain 2020 event which took place in the Houses of Parliament on Monday 9th March during British Science […]

SABRE team members put together an interactive, fun and informative afternoon’s workshop focused on sustainable aviation for “ACCESS to Bristol”, a widening participation scheme. The event took place on 26th February 202.   In total, 20 students (aged between 16 and 17 years old) took part in the workshop. They met key eligibility criteria, for example, […]

At the AIAA SciTech Forum 2020 conference and forum, the SABRE team presented their research in a dedicated special session entitled: “AS-04: Morphing Rotor Blades”. The session was chaired by Dr Benjamin Woods and took place on the 8th of January between 2.30pm and 5.30pm. The SABRE consortium presented no fewer than 6 technical papers.  […]

From all at the SABRE team, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The SABRE Project will be coming to an end in 2020 but there is still lots of wind and whirl tower testing to get right first. Happy SABREmas!  

In January 2020, at the AIAA SciTech 2020 conference and forum, the SABRE team will be presenting their research in a special session on morphing rotor blades. The special session, chaired by Dr Benjamin Woods, will take place on the 8th of January between 2.30pm and 5.30pm. The SABRE consortium will be presenting no fewer […]