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Aerospace, 2019 The presented aircraft is capable of alternating between two singular working points by folding the exterior surfaces of the wing underneath the interior surfaces. This allows for a significant change in wingspan, lift surfaces, aspect ratio and airfoil (
Amit Geva, Haim Abramovich, Rimon Arieli
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Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system [PDF]
, 2018 A new wing-tip concept with morphing upper surface and interchangeable conventional and morphing ailerons was designed, manufactured, bench and wind tunnel tested.
Amendola, G +15 more
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Basal complex: a smart wing component for automatic shape morphing
Communications Biology, 2023 Insect wings are adaptive structures that automatically respond to flight forces, surpassing even cutting-edge engineering shape-morphing systems. A widely accepted but not yet explicitly tested hypothesis is that a 3D component in the wing’s proximal ...
Sepehr H. Eraghi +8 more
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Design, development and testing of shape shifting wing model [PDF]
, 2017 The design and development of morphing (shape shifting) aircraft wings—an innovative technology that has the potential to increase the aerodynamic efficiency and reduce noise signatures of aircrafts—was carried out.
Dakka, Sam, Ninian, Dean
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Morphing nacelle inlet lip with pneumatic actuators and a flexible nano composite sandwich panel [PDF]
, 2015 We present a hybrid pneumatic/flexible sandwich structure with thermoplastic nanocomposite skins to enable the morphing of a nacelle inlet lip. The design consists of pneumatic inflatables as actuators and a flexible sandwich panel that morphs under ...
Craciun, Monica +6 more
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Hierarchical modeling and optimization of camber morphing airfoil
Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015 Abstract A variable camber morphing airfoil with compliant ribs and flexible composite skins is studied in a hierarchical modeling framework. The key requirements of a variable camber morphing airfoil are the flexible skin, compliant internal structure and a lightweight actuation system.
Murugan, Senthil +2 more
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A bistable morphing composite using viscoelastically generated prestress [PDF]
, 2015 Elastically generated prestress within polymeric composites can be used to create bistable morphing structures; i.e. they can ‘snap through’ between one of two states.
Fancey, Kevin S., Wang, Bing
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Design and Shape Monitoring of a Morphing Wing Trailing Edge
Aerospace, 2023 The morphing wing trailing edge is an attractive aviation structure due to its shape-adaptive ability, which can effectively improve the aerodynamic performance of an aircraft throughout the whole flight.
Xintong Shi +5 more
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A combined smart-materials approach for next-generation airfoils [PDF]
, 2016 This article will present a morphing wing actuated using both surface embedded Shape memory alloys (SMAs) and trailing edge Macro-fiber composites (MFCs).
Braza, Marianna +6 more
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State-of-the-art in aerodynamic shape optimisation methods [PDF]
, 2018 Aerodynamic optimisation has become an indispensable component for any aerodynamic design over the past 60 years, with applications to aircraft, cars, trains, bridges, wind turbines, internal pipe flows, and cavities, among others, and is thus relevant ...
Skinner, S.N., Zare-Behtash, H.
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