Design of piezostack-driven trailing-edge flap actuator for helicopter rotors

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-24

  Lee, Taeoh ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AMPLIFICATION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MACHINE VIBRATIONS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR; PIEZOSTACK; TRAILING EDGE FLAP MECHANISM;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0035249554     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/10/1/302     Document Type: Article

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