Morphing wing flight control via postbuckled precompressed piezoelectric actuators

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1060-1068

  Vos, Roelof ^a,c,d   De Breuker, Roeland ^a,c,d   Barrett, Ron ^b,d,e   Tiso, Paolo ^a,c,d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Faculty ot Aerospace Engineering   (Netherlands)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Aerospace Engineering Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BUCKLING; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH FADING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WINGS;

AERODYNAMIC LOADING; AXIAL PRECOMPRESSION; RAYLEIGH-RITZ METHOD; TRAILING-EDGE DEFLECTIONS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 34548341800     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.21292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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