Flexible skins for morphing aircraft using cellular honeycomb cores

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1719-1735

  Olympio, Kingnidé R ^a   Gandhi, Farhan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular structure; flexible skin; honeycomb; morphing

Indexed keywords

CELL PARAMETER; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; FLEXIBLE SKIN; HONEYCOMB; HONEYCOMB CORE; IN-PLANE STIFFNESS; LARGE STRAINS; MATERIAL SOFTENING; MORPHING; MORPHING AIRCRAFTS; NONLINEARITIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OUT-OF-PLANE; OVERALL PROPERTIES; PRINCIPLE AXES; VIRGIN MATERIALS;

MATERIALS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 78650399834     PISSN: 1045389X     EISSN: 15308138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X09350331     Document Type: Article

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