Design of flutter characteristics of composite wings using frequency constraint optimization

Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-30

  Khot, Narendra S ^a   Zweber, Jeffrey V ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite structures; Flutter; Frequency distribution

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC MATRIX; COMPOSITE WINGS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY GRADIENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; SHEAR STRESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL LOADS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WINGS;

FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS);

EID: 13944259057     PISSN: 08931321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2003)16:1(19)     Document Type: Article

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