Morphing of inflatable wings

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 3832-3842

  Simpson, Andrew ^a,b   Coulombe, Nathan ^a,c   Jacob, Jamey ^a,b   Smith, Suzanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c Mechanical Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLATABLE WINGS; MECHANICAL MECHANISMS; MORPHING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERODYNAMICS; DEFORMATION; INFLATABLE STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STIFFNESS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

WINGS;

EID: 28844462473     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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