A multidisciplinary design environment for composite rotor blades

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rohl, Peter J ^a   Dorman, Paul ^a   Sutton, Mark ^a   Kumar, Devesh ^b   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^b  

^a Advatech Pacific Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS; COMPOSITE ROTOR BLADE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE; STIFFNESS PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; VIBRATION REDUCTIONS;

AEROELASTICITY; AIRCRAFT; DESIGN; HELICOPTER ROTORS; ROTORS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84881397927     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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