Comprehensive rotorcraft analysis: Past, present, and future

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages 5502-5512

  Kunz, Donald L ^a,b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ROTORS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL TASKS; ROTORCRAFT ANALYSIS; SECOND GENERATION CODES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 28844442921     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-2244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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