Work Package 1 will focus on the analysis of CO2, NOx, and acoustic emissions reductions achievable with shape adaptive rotor blades. SABRE will develop a multi-disciplinary helicopter emissions model by combining comprehensive rotor analysis, high-fidelity coupled aerodynamic and structural solvers, surrogate models of the morphing technologies, and emissions models, creating the most detailed, transdisciplinary, and comprehensive model of its type. This analysis will quantify and optimise the emissions reductions achievable with each morphing concept, and will consider the impact of multiple morphing mechanisms on a single blade.

Work Package 2 will mature a selected group of novel, beyond state-of-the-art, helicopter focused morphing concepts through a carefully considered program of modelling, design and experimental testing efforts. The concepts considered include two active twist devices (SMA, inertially driven), two active camber concepts (FishBAC, translation induced camber), a variable chord concept and an active tendon concept which can actively control blade dynamic response.

This work package will also consider a novel approach to addressing the challenge of actuation in the rotating frame through the development of passive energy balancing methods that directly offset the amount of energy required to morph, and therefore allow for smaller, lighter, lower power actuators to be used.

Surrogate models of the morphing concepts will be developed for use in the WP1 analysis, and the work package will culminate in wind tunnel and whirl tower testing of the concepts.

Work Package 3 will be used to control all project management, dissemination and exploitation activities within the consortium. The project management activity will also monitor the opportunities for dissemination of the project results to the European Research Area and the wider community.

Project Management will consist of a Scientific Coordinator (Dr. Benjamin Woods), a Project Officer (Sophie Spence) and legal and financial personnel; with additional support from the University Research and Enterprise Development (RED) centre. The project management personnel will provide efficient support to ensure the successful completion of the SABRE project.

University of Bristol as Coordinator will develop project reporting templates for official communications to the EC. The project manager will be responsible for notifying due dates of the reporting to the partners and will ensure the diffusion and collection of partners’ contributions through the Steering Committee before submission to EC representatives.

The partners in the consortium will place great emphasis on the dissemination of information generated by the consortium. This will be done through the normal channels of workshops, leaflets, newsletters, booklets, technical papers and conference presentations. All publications will be green or gold open access and acknowledge the project, other partners and the funding from the EU. In addition the project management supplied by University of Bristol will develop a website that will contain details relating to the project, background information on the topic, links to partners, papers and may contain links to any other related activities.