Design and application of compliant mechanisms for morphing aircraft structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5054, Issue , 2003, Pages 24-33

  Kota, Sridhar ^a   Hetrick, Joel ^a   Osborn, Russell ^a   Paul, Donald ^b   Pendleton, Ed ^b   Flick, Peter ^b   Tilmann, Carl ^b  

^a FlexSys Inc   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Flow Control; Aircraft Morphing; Compliant Mechanism; Structural Optimization

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; FLOW CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; STIFFNESS; WINGS;

AIRCRAFT MORPHING; AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0242526928     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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