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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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Luigi Di Palma, Mariacristina Nardone, Claudio Pezzella and Marika Belardo
This paper presents a methodology that involves the development of high-fidelity modeling and simulation procedures aimed at supporting virtual certification for crashworthiness requirements specific to tiltrotor aircraft, addressing the critical need fo...
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Antonio Chiariello, Gaetano Perillo, Mauro Linari, Raffaele Russo, Salvatore Orlando, Pasquale Vitale and Marika Belardo
This study addresses the crucial role of post-buckling behavior analysis in the structural design of composite aeronautical structures. Traditional engineering practices tend to result in oversized composite components, increasing structural weight. EASA...
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Aniello Daniele Marano, Gianluca Diodati, Nicola Paletta, Luigi Di Palma, Marika Belardo and Pierre Abdel Nour
This paper is focused on structural scalability studies of a new generation of civil tiltrotor wingbox structures. Starting from a reference wingbox, developed under the H2020 Clean Sky 2 NGCTR-TD T-WING project, a geometric scaling was performed to upsc...
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Aniello Daniele Marano, Marika Belardo, Jacopo Beretta, Filomena Starace, Salvatore Orlando, Claudio Punzi, Raffaele Frajese, Nicola Paletta and Luigi Di Palma
The tiltrotor wing structure is one of the most critical and heavily investigated structures in design due to the fundamental need to consider the interactions between the wing, pylon, and rotor systems to achieve aircraft aeroelastic stability. Indeed, ...
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Jinrui Yu and Jiayao Ma
The research focuses on the design of a shear morphing wing skin, which can potentially greatly expand the shear morphing capability of aircraft wings and meet the requirements of a large swept-back angle at high speed and a small swept-back angle at low...
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Rogério Rodrigues dos Santos, Tulio Gomes de Paula Machado and Saullo Giovani Pereira Castro
One of the core technologies in lightweight structures is the optimal design of laminated composite stiffened panels. The increasing tailoring potential of new materials added to the simultaneous optimization of various design regions, leading to design ...
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Angelos Kafkas, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Athanasios Kotzakolios, Vassilis Kostopoulos and George Lampeas
Efficient optimization is a prerequisite to realize the full potential of an aeronautical structure. The success of an optimization framework is predominately influenced by the ability to capture all relevant physics. Furthermore, high computational effi...
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Valerio Acanfora, Roberto Petillo, Salvatore Incognito, Gerardo Mario Mirra and Aniello Riccio
This work provides a feasibility and effectiveness analysis, through numerical investigation, of metal replacement of primary components with composite material for an executive aircraft wing. In particular, benefits and disadvantages of replacing metal,...
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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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Dimitri?s Stamatelos and George Labeas
In the pursuit of a lighter composite wing design, fast and effective methodologies for sizing and validating the wing members (e.g., spar, ribs, skins, etc.) are required. In the present paper, the preliminary design methodology of an airliner main comp...
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Filippo Valoriani, Marco Esposito and Marco Gherlone
Shape sensing is the reconstruction of the displacement field of a structure from some discrete surface strain measurements and is a key technology for structural health monitoring. The aim of this paper is to compare two approaches to shape sensing that...
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Michele Ferraiuolo, Concetta Palumbo, Andrea Sellitto and Aniello Riccio
The thermo-structural design of the wing leading edge of hypersonic vehicles is a very challenging task as high gradients in thermal field, and hence high thermal stresses, are expected. Indeed, when employing passive hot structures based thermal protect...
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Lukasz Swiech
This paper presents the issues concerning calibration of a measurement system for monitoring the cross-sectional forces and moments of an unmanned aircraft?s wing. A composite cantilever wing with built-in measurement systems based on electrical resistan...
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Matthew J. Nicolas, Rani W. Sullivan and W. Lance Richards
Technological advances have enabled the development of a number of optical fiber sensing methods over the last few years. The most prevalent optical technique involves the use of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. These small, lightweight sensors have ma...
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Matthew J. Nicolas, Rani W. Sullivan and W. Lance Richards
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Filomena Piscitelli and Annalisa Volpe
Corrosion is a persistent challenge in the aviation industry, affecting the safety, performance, and maintenance costs of aircraft. While composite materials have gained widespread use due to their lightweight properties and corrosion resistance, certain...
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Marika Belardo, Aniello Daniele Marano, Jacopo Beretta, Gianluca Diodati, Mario Graziano, Mariacarmela Capasso, Pierpaolo Ariola, Salvatore Orlando, Francesco Di Caprio, Nicola Paletta and Luigi Di Palma
The main objective of this paper is to describe a methodology to be applied in the preliminary design of a tiltrotor wing based on previously developed conceptual design methods. The reference vehicle is the Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Technology Dem...
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Evgeny Dubovikov, Danil Fomin, Natalia Guseva, Ivan Kondakov, Evgeny Kruychkov, Ivan Mareskin and Alexander Shanygin
For this study, structural and manufacturing schemes for low-curvature pressurized fuselage panels were proposed, making it possible to provide high weight efficiency for the airframes of prospective civil blended wing-body (BWB) aircraft. The manufactur...
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Agnes A. R. Broer, Rinze Benedictus and Dimitrios Zarouchas
With the increased use of composites in aircraft, many new successful contributions to the advancement of the structural health monitoring (SHM) field for composite aerospace structures have been achieved. Yet its application is still not often seen in o...
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