Starr Ginn, Deputy Branch Chief, Engineering Directorate, Aerostructures Branch, Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA

摘要

Starr Ginn is an expert in aircraft ground vibration testing and flight flutter testing. She recently designed and developed a unique aircraft jacking system that allows a test specimen to "float" during ground vibration testing.rnNASA Tech Briefs: What does Dryden's Aerostructures Branch do, and what types of projects are you involved with?rnStarr Ginn: I'm pretty sure we are the biggest engineering branch in the directorate, and we do a plethora of things, starting with dynamic thermal and structural analysis. That includes finite element modeling, aero loads analysis, flutter analysis, aero servoelastic analysis, and aero heating. We do dynamic thermal and structural ground tests. Some of those tests are ground vibration tests and structural mode interaction testing, and we do structural loads calibrations and equation derivations, proof load tests, and combination thermal/structural testing.