Preliminary Mach-scale hover testing of an integral twist-actuated rotor blade

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3329, Issue , 1998, Pages 291-308

  Rodgers, John P ^a   Hagood, Nesbitt W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Composites; Distributed actuation; Hover testing; Individual blade control; Piezoelectric; Rotorbiades

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; MATERIALS TESTING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

COMPOSITES; DISTRIBUTED ACTUATION; HOVER TESTING; INDIVIDUAL BLADE CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC; ROTORBIADES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0342989953     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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