Actuation requirements of a warp induced variable twist rotor blade

ASME 2010 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 265-285

  Mistry, Mihir ^a   Gandhi, Farhan ^a   Nagelsmit, Martin ^b   Gurdal, Zafer ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; STIFFNESS; TORSIONAL STRESS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AIRFOIL PROFILE; BEAM SPAN LENGTH; CLOSED SECTIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS; TORSION STIFFNESS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84859522558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/smasis2010-3615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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