Abstract:
This project is to design and fabricate the envelope for an indoor airship, paper
includes the brief idea about selection of suitable material, deciding and estimating
shape and volume of the envelope for an indoor airship with minimum dimension
which can lift the required payload.
The methodology adopted here is a systematic collation of various design
and approaches and concepts, which were studied during the design. The various
shapes have been studied for their different characteristics like surface area, volume,
surface area/ volume, lift, length/volume ratio and all the shapes have been compared
on above characteristics and a suitable shape have been selected. Also a easy
methodology is advised for petal profile generation for the ease of fabrication.
