Performance Enhancement of the Flexible Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Aircraft Using Variable-Camber Continuous Trailing-Edge Flaps [PDF]
Aircraft designers are to a growing extent using vehicle flexibility to optimize performance with objectives such as gust load alleviation and drag minimization.
Bartels, Robert E. +2 more
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HiMAT flight program: Test results and program assessment overview [PDF]
The Highly Manueverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) program consisted of design, fabrication of two subscale remotely piloted research vehicles (RPRVs), and flight test. This technical memorandum describes the vehicles and test approach.
Deangelis, V. Michael +2 more
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Computational engine structural analysis [PDF]
A significant research activity at the NASA Lewis Research Center is the computational simulation of complex multidisciplinary engine structural problems.
Chamis, C. C., Johns, R. H.
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System analysis approach to deriving design criteria (loads) for Space Shuttle and its payloads. Volume 1: General statement of approach [PDF]
Space shuttle, the most complex transportation system designed to date, illustrates the requirement for an analysis approach that considers all major disciplines simultaneously.
Bullock, T. +4 more
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Trim and Structural Optimization of Subsonic Transport Wings Using Nonconventional Aeroelastic Tailoring [PDF]
Several minimum-mass aeroelastic optimization problems are solved to evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of novel tailoring schemes for subsonic transport wings.
Jutte, Christine V., Stanford, Bret K.
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Tailored Interfaces in Fiber-Reinforced Elastomers: A Surface Treatment Study on Optimized Load Coupling via the Modified Fiber Bundle Debond Technique. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2020 Beter J +7 more
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Integration of dynamic, aerodynamic, and structural optimization of helicopter rotor blades [PDF]
Summarized here is the first six years of research into the integration of structural, dynamic, and aerodynamic considerations in the design-optimization process for rotor blades.
Peters, David A.
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Structural Optimization of an Aeroelastically Tailored Composite Wing [PDF]
, 2007 Effects of aspect ratio, sweep angle, and stacking sequence of laminated composites were studied to find the optimized configuration of an aeroelastically tailored composite wing idealized as a flat plate in terms of flutter speed.
Attaran, Abdolhamid
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, 2009 Development of a design methodology for a composite, bend-twist coupled, tidal turbine blade has been undertaken. Numerical modelling was used to predict the response of the main structural member for the adaptive blade.
Boyd, S.W. +2 more
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Integrating aerodynamics and structures in the minimum weight design of a supersonic transport wing [PDF]
An approach is presented for determining the minimum weight design of aircraft wing models which takes into consideration aerodynamics-structure coupling when calculating both zeroth order information needed for analysis and first order information ...
Barthelemy, Jean-Francois M. +4 more
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