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Touraj Farsadi, Majid Ahmadi, Melin Sahin, Hamed Haddad Khodaparast, Altan Kayran and Michael I. Friswell
In the field of aerospace engineering, the design and manufacturing of high aspect ratio composite wings has become a focal point of innovation and efficiency. These long, slender wings, constructed with advanced materials such as carbon fiber and employ...
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Ligang Qu, Peng Li, Guangming Lv, Jing Li and Xian Luo
Within the double-sided countersunk riveting process of aircraft wings with a composite wedge structure, riveting consistency is poor, and composite damage is severe, which seriously affects the performance and reliability of the aircraft structure. This...
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Spyridon Kilimtzidis and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The race towards cleaner and more efficient commercial aviation demands novel designs featuring improved aerodynamic and structural characteristics, the main pillars that drive aircraft efficiency. Among the many proposed and introduced, the increase in ...
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Yu Wang, Xiang Li, Tingjia Wu and Hailian Yin
Since the taper ratio of most wings is not equal to 1, the beam-disk trailing edge deflection mechanism originally designed for the rectangular wing is not fully applicable to the non-equal chord wing. Moreover, it is not only expected that the wing shap...
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Xuan Bai, Hao Zhan and Baigang Mi
Flow separation occurs when wind turbines operate under large inflow conditions, which seriously affects the utilization of wind energy and reduces the output power of the blade. Therefore, a composite flow control configuration for horizontal axis wind ...
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Anatolii Kretov and Dmytro Tiniakov
The application of the wings with a high aspect ratio for future-oriented transport category aircraft is being considered. Such a solution makes it possible to increase fuel efficiency by reducing induced drag. This goal is achieved by increasing the win...
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Xiaoming Wang, Xinhan Hu, Chengbin Huang and Wenya Zhou
The mission performance of future advanced aerospace structures can be synthetically improved via active shape control utilizing piezoelectric materials. Multiple work modes are required. Bending/twisting mode control receives special attention for many ...
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Peter L. Bishay, James S. Kok, Luis J. Ferrusquilla, Brian M. Espinoza, Andrew Heness, Antonio Buendia, Sevada Zadoorian, Paul Lacson, Jonathan D. Ortiz, Ruiki Basilio and Daniel Olvera
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. Morphing technology aims to replace conventiona...
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Peter L. Bishay and Christian Aguilar
Although the benefits of morphing wings have been proven in many studies in the last few decades, the wing skin design remains one of the challenges to advancing and implementing the morphing technology. This is due to the conflicting design requirements...
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Aris A. Ikiades
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors have been widely used for measurements of strain and temperature in a host of different applications, including aerospace in composite wings, fuselage structures, and other critical components. Here, we report on a metho...
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