Lightweight Shape-Adaptable Airfoils: A New Challenge for an Old Dream

Adaptive Structures: Engineering Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 89-135

  Campanile, L F ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coupling mechanism and structure; Extending coupling to actuator system; Kinematics inspired approach; Lightweight shape adaptable airfoils; Otto Lilienthal and flying machine; Powerful distributed actuator aerodynamics; Science of compliant mechanisms; Solid state actuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949138855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470512067.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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