Adaptive blade twist - Calculations and experimental results

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 309-319

  Büter, Andreas ^a   Breitbach, Elmar ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive materials and structures; Adaptive rotor control; Adaptive rotor systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039926999     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1270-9638(00)00134-6     Document Type: Article

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