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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Low-Speed Aeroelastic Modeling of Very Flexible Slender Wings with Deformable Airfoils [PDF]
, 2008 Published ...
Cesnik, CES, Palacios, R
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3D-Printed Bio-Inspired Mechanisms for Bird-like Morphing Drones
Applied Sciences, 2023 Birds have unique flight characteristics unrivaled by even the most advanced drones due in part to their lightweight morphable wings and tail. Advancements in 3D-printing, servomotors, and composite materials are enabling more innovative airplane designs
Peter L. Bishay +6 more
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Evaluating the Rationale for Folding Wing Tips Comparing the Exergy and Breguet Approaches [PDF]
, 2017 The design and development processes for future aircraft aims to address the environmental and efficiency challenges needed to facilitate the engineering of concepts that are far more integrated and require a multidisciplinary approach.
Hayes, D. +2 more
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Geometrically nonlinear electro-aeroelastic framework for morphing wing with piezoelectric actuators
Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2019 In this paper, a flexible morphing wing with piezoelectric materials for morphing actuation is studied. The objectives of this paper are 1) to develop an integrated geometrically nonlinear electro-aeroelastic framework, which allows evaluating ...
Natsuki TSUSHIMA +3 more
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Study on Fluid–Structure Interaction of a Camber Morphing Wing
Vibration, 2023 The influence of trailing edge deformation on the aerodynamic characteristics of camber morphing wings is an important topic in the aviation field.
Yuanjing Wang +4 more
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Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic characteristics of a bionic morphing flap
Energy Reports, 2023 Birds adapt to the changing flight conditions by performing intricate feather-movements to manipulate the airflow. The avian wings often undergo seamless transformations at the trailing-edge to achieve camber-reflexes for extended flight envelope.
Md. Zishan Akhter +2 more
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Optimal Elastic Wing for Flapping-Wing Robots Through Passive Morphing
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 Flapping wing robots show promise as platforms for safe and efficient flight in near-human operations, thanks to their ability to agile maneuver or perch at a low Reynolds number. The growing trend in the automatization of these robots has to go hand in hand with an increase in the payload capacity.
Ruiz, Cristina +3 more
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Dynamic Analysis and Experiment of Multiple Variable Sweep Wings on a Tandem-Wing MAV
Drones, 2023 The current morphing technologies are mostly regarded as auxiliary tools, providing additional control torques to enhance the flight maneuverability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and they cannot exist independently of the traditional control ...
Liang Gao +6 more
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Aerodynamic/Aeroacoustic Numerical Simulation and Manufaturing of a Sample Morphing Wing in Twisted Mode [PDF]
فناوری در مهندسی هوافضا, 2023 Inspiring from bird’s wings and flights has long been a fascinating subject. In recent years, due to advent of materials and implementation of bird’s flights, use of morphing wings have created considerable changes in scientific issues related to air ...
Reza Harbi Monfared +2 more
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