Design of a morphing airfoil with composite chiral structure

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1008-1019

  Airoldi, Alessandro ^a,b   Crespi, Marco ^a,b   Quaranta, Giuseppe ^a,b   Sala, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS;

AERODYNAMIC STRUCTURES; AERODYNAMIC SURFACES; AEROELASTIC STABILITY; MORPHING CAPABILITY; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; STIFFNESS PROPERTIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENTS; WING CONFIGURATIONS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 84864486009     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.C031486     Document Type: Article

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