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On the Importance of Morphing Deformation Scheduling for Actuation Force and Energy
Aerospace, 2016 Morphing aircraft offer superior properties as compared to non-morphing aircraft. They can achieve this by adapting their shape depending on the requirements of various conflicting flight conditions.
Roeland De Breuker, Noud Werter
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Aerospace, 2022 Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these control surfaces generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic and power efficiencies.
Peter L. Bishay +10 more
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Aerospace, 2014 Recent advances in smart structures and multifunctional materials have facilitated many novel aerospace technologies such as morphing aircraft. A morphing aircraft, bio-inspired by natural fliers, has gained a lot of interest as a potential technology to
Rafic Ajaj
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IEEE Access, 2017 Morphings are usually used for aircrafts to achieve a better performance in variable environment, whereas this paper focuses on how to achieve a trajectory-attitude separation control effect with an active morphing strategy.
Tianhao Guo, Zhongxi Hou, Bingjie Zhu
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Polyproline: A Synthetic Polypeptide With Unique Properties
Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Poly‐L‐proline is a unique polypeptide distinguished by its well‐defined secondary structures and unusual thermal behavior. This mini review highlights recent advances in the synthesis of poly‐L‐proline by N‐carboxyanhydride (NCA) polymerization, the formation of structurally defined architectures and nanostructures, and emerging strategies that ...
Rosanna Le Scouarnec +3 more
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Methods for designing the next generation of aircraft architectures using topology optimisation [PDF]
, 2010 The need from energy efficient transportation has resulted in a growing interest in new aircraft configurations such as the Blended Wing Body. There is very little collective knowledge on the optimal structural layouts of these aircraft, and the ...
Eves, Jamie Samantha
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Applied Sciences, 2021 Aircraft winglets are well-established devices that improve aircraft fuel efficiency by enabling a higher lift over drag ratios and lower induced drag. Retrofitting winglets to existing aircraft also increases aircraft payload/range by the same order of ...
Ignazio Dimino +5 more
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Span morphing using the compliant spar [PDF]
, 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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Attitude intelligent control methods for morphing aircraft: review and prospects
ArrayThe practical application of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in fields such as computer vision, autonomous driving and robot control has provided important theoretical inspiration and methodological references for the deep ...
Jiawei Zhao +4 more
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Analysis of Motion Characteristics of Bionic Morphing Wing Based on Sarrus Linkages
Applied Sciences, 2022 The variant aircraft can flexibly change its shape to achieve the best sports performance under different flight environments and flight missions. Changing the shape of the wings is a major form of variant aircraft.
Zhong Yun +3 more
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