Contact-aided compliant mechanisms for morphing aircraft skin

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6926, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mehta, Vipul ^a   Frecker, Mary ^a   Lesieutre, George ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact aided mechanism; Honeycombs; Morphing aircraft; Skin; Stress relief; Transverse deflection

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; LOADS (FORCES); STRAIN; STRESS RELIEF; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CONTACT-AIDED MECHANISM; MORPHING AIRCRAFT; TRANSVERSE DEFLECTION;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 44349127382     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.773599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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