Design and demonstrators testing of adaptive airfoils and hingeless wings actuated by shape memory alloy wires

Smart Structures and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-114

  Mirone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive wing; Compliant structure; Finite element method; Hingeless wing; Image analysis; Shape memory alloy; SMA actuator

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONTROL SURFACES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; WINGS;

ADAPTIVE WING; COMPLIANT STRUCTURES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE; SMA ACTUATORS; TRAILING EDGES; WING STIFFNESS;

SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY;

EID: 34548603938     PISSN: 17381584     EISSN: 17381991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/sss.2007.3.1.089     Document Type: Article

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