Formulation of a comprehensive aeroelastic analysis for tilt-rotor aircraft

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 280-287

  Srinivas, Venkataraman ^a,b,c   Chopra, Inderjit ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Engineering Technology Associates   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FUSELAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTORS; WINGS;

TILT ROTOR AIRCRAFT;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0032024239     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2296     Document Type: Article

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