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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Rotating Machinery Volume 2012, Article ID 632856, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/632856 Research Article Scaling of the Transient Hydroelastic Response and Failure Mechanisms of Self-Adaptive Composite Marine Propellers Michael R. Motley and Yin L. Young Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2145, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Michael R. Motley, mmotley@ Received 11 February 2012; Revised 18 June 2012; Accepted 20 June 2012 Academic Editor: Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud Copyright © 2012 M. R. Motley and Y. L. Young. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The load dependent deformation responses and complex failure mechanisms of self-adaptive composite propeller blades make the design, analysis, and scaling of these structures nontrivial. The objective of this work is to investigate and verify the dynamic similarity relationships for the hydroelastic response and potential failure mechanisms of self-adaptive composite marine propellers. A fully coupled, three-dimensional boundary element method-finite element method is used to compare the model and full-scale responses of a self-adaptive composite propeller. The effects of spatially varying inflow, transient sheet cavitation, and load-dependent blade deformation are considered. Three types of scaling are discussed: Reynolds scale, Froude scale, and Mach scale. The results show that Mach scaling, which requires the model inflow speed to be the same as the full scale, will lead to discrepancies in th