Development of a piezoelectric actuator for trailing edge flap control of full scale rotor blades

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-34

  Straub, F K ^a   Ngo, H T ^a   Anand, V ^a   Domzalski, D B ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MACHINE DESIGN; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ACTUATOR BENCH TESTING; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR; ROTOR BLADES; TRAILING EDGE FLAP CONTROL;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0035249462     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/10/1/303     Document Type: Article

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