Aeroelastic stability of composite hingeless rotors in hover with finite-state unsteady aerodynamics

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-221

  Shang, Xiaoyang ^a,c   Hodges, Dewey H ^a   Peters, David A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c PRATT AND WHITNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; STABILITY;

AEROELASTIC STABILITY; COMPOSITE HINGELESS ROTORS; FINITE STATE UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS; GENERALIZED DYNAMIC WAKE THEORY; GEOMETRICALLY EXACT NONLINEAR BEAM THEORY; HOVER;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0033157011     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.44.206     Document Type: Article

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