Design of extendable chord sections for morphing helicopter rotor blades

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 323-336

  Barbarino, Silvestro ^a   Gandhi, Farhan ^b   Webster, Steven D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEONARDO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DEFORMATION; FLIGHT ENVELOPES; HELICOPTER ROTORS; HELICOPTERS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL; STRAIN; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

BLADE SECTION; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; DESIGN STUDIES; GLOBAL STRAINS; HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES; LOCAL STRAINS; MAXIMUM SPEED; TRAILING EDGES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84859559367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/smasis2010-3668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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