Aeroelastic tailoring of composite couplings and blade geometry of a helicopter rotor using optimization methods

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 218-228

  Ganguli, Ranjan ^a,b   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COUPLINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINE VIBRATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

BLADE GEOMETRY; COMPOSITE COUPLINGS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0031186648     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.42.218     Document Type: Article

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