VABS: A new concept for composite rotor blade cross-sectional modeling

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-38

  Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a,b   Hodges, Dewey H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFORMATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HELICOPTER ROTORS; KINEMATICS; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BEAM THEORY; COMPOSITE ROTOR BLADES; CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; DISCRETIZATION; ELASTICITY FORMULATION; STRAIN ENERGY; VARIATIONAL ASYMPTOTICAL METHOD; WARPING;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 0030834762     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.42.27     Document Type: Article

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