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A Mission-Adaptive Variable Camber Flap Control System to Optimize High Lift and Cruise Lift-to-Drag Ratios of Future N+3 Transport Aircraft [PDF]
Boeing and NASA are conducting a joint study program to design a wing flap system that will provide mission-adaptive lift and drag performance for future transport aircraft having light-weight, flexible wings.
Ippolito, Corey +5 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Muscle cell‐based biohybrid robot using nanomaterials for function enhancement and neural function for biomedical applications. Biohybrid robotics, an emerging field combining biological tissues with artificial systems, has made significant progress in developing various biohybrid constructs, including muscle‐cell‐driven biorobots and microbots.
Minkyu Shin +4 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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The Effect of Inflatable Pressure on the Strain Deformation of Flexible Wing Skin Film
Applied SciencesFlexible inflatable film wings have many functional advantages that traditional fixed rigid wings do not possess, such as foldability, small size, light weight, convenient storage, transportation, and so on.
Longbin Liu, Mengyang Fan, Xingfu Cui
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Span morphing using the compliant spar
, 2014 This paper develops and models the Compliant Spar concept that allows the wing span to be varied to provide roll control and enhance the operational performance for a medium altitude long endurance (MALE) UAV.
Ajaj, R.M. +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.In macrophage‐myofibroblast transition, upregulated NNMT depletes S‐Adenosylmethionine (SAM) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD+), thereby triggering epigenetic reprogramming via Histone H3 Lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac) accumulation at the promoter region of master transcription factor Prrx1.
Xiwen Dong +11 more
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Fiber-Optic Strain-Based Deflection and Twist Sensing for a High-Aspect-Ratio Swept Wing [PDF]
Designs of aircraft structures have been moving toward leaner, lightweight designs for increased fuel efficiency. The Passive Aeroelastic Tailored (PAT) wing developed under the NASA Advanced Air Transport Technology (AATT) project is an example of a ...
Pena, Francisco
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A Degradable Bioinspired Flier with Aerogel‐Based Colorimetric Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Biodegradable fliers are developed inspired by Tipuana tipu samaras, integrating cellulose nanocrystal aerogel (CNCa) sensors loaded with natural dyes for pH and ammonia detection. The lightweight, degradable fliers mimic natural morphology and aerodynamics, offering an eco‐friendly, scalable solution for in situ environmental monitoring after passive ...
Gianpaolo Gallo +4 more
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Pre-Tensioned Flexible Skins for Large-Folding-Ratio UAV Wings: Theory and Tests
AerospaceThis paper proposes a hybrid rigid–flexible wing design that enables large-area folding and reconfiguration. Based on elasticity theory and fabric constitutive equations, a surface-outward mechanical model incorporating mesoscale weave structures was ...
Guang Yang +4 more
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Numerical Aspects of Nonlinear Flexible Aircraft Flight Dynamics Modeling
, 2013 A critical review of the numerical approximations made in flexible aircraft dynamics modeling is presented. The baseline model is a geometrically-exact.
Bauchau O. A. +5 more
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