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Carmine Varriale, Agostino De Marco, Elia Daniele, Jonas Schmidt and Bernhard Stoevesandt
This work focuses on the wake encounter problem occurring when a light, or very light, aircraft flies through or nearby a wind turbine wake. The dependency of the aircraft normal load factor on the distance from the turbine rotor in various flight and en...
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Carmine Varriale, Agostino De Marco, Elia Daniele, Jonas Schmidt and Bernhard Stoevesandt
This work focuses on the wake encounter problem occurring when a light, or very light, aircraft flies through or nearby a wind turbine wake. The dependency of the aircraft normal load factor on the distance from the turbine rotor in various flight and en...
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Matthew J. Nicolas, Rani W. Sullivan and W. Lance Richards
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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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Rhys Jones, Ramesh Chandwani, Chris Timbrell, Anthony J. Kinloch and Daren Peng
Adhesively bonded doublers and adhesively bonded repairs are extensively used to extend the operational life of metallic aircraft structures. Consequently, this paper focuses on the tools needed to address sustainment issues associated with both adhesive...
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Yanjun Zhang, Shancheng Cao, Bintuan Wang and Zhiping Yin
High-precision operational flight loads are essential for monitoring fatigue of individual aircraft and are usually determined by flight parameters. To tackle the nonlinear relationship between flight loads and flight parameters for more accurate predict...
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Bereket Sitotaw Kidane and Enrico Troiani
Wing shape adaptability during flight is the next step towards the greening of aviation. The shape of the wing is typically designed for one cruise point or a weighted average of several cruise points. However, a wing is subjected to a variety of flight ...
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Qi Yan, Zhiqiang Wan and Chao Yang
Flight load calculation, an important step in aircraft design and optimization, typically involves millions of computations and requires significant computing resources and time. Improving the efficiency of flight load calculations while maintaining accu...
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Vega Handojo, Jan Himisch, Kjell Bramsiepe, Wolf Reiner Krüger and Lorenz Tichy
In recent years, load alleviation technologies have been more widely used in transport aircraft. For aircraft already in service, load alleviation can contribute in extending the fatigue life, or enable small configurational changes. If load alleviation ...
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Jingjing Zhang and Jinglin Luo
Traditional swash plates generally have numerous parts, which may result in the abrasion of key parts. In this paper, to avoid the problems of traditional swash plates, a low-cost and high-reliability rotor micro-aerial vehicle integrated attitude-adjust...
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Victoria G. Carter and Md Jahir Rizvi
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is subjected to various loads. In addition, the operation of fixed-wing aircraft presents unique structural requirements for the deck. This paper, therefore, compares the structural behaviour of a flight deck which ...
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Luciano Blasi, Mauro Borrelli, Egidio D?Amato, Luigi Emanuel di Grazia, Massimiliano Mattei and Immacolata Notaro
This paper describes the control architecture and the control laws of a new concept of Modular Iron Bird aimed at reproducing flight loads to test mobile aerodynamic control surface actuators for small and medium size aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...
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Hidetoshi Takahashi, Kosuke Abe, Tomoyuki Takahata and Isao Shimoyama
Beetles have attracted attention from researchers due to their unique combination of a passively flapping forewing and an actively flapping hindwing during flight. Because the wing loads of beetles are larger than the wing loads of other insects, the mec...
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Hidetoshi Takahashi, Kosuke Abe, Tomoyuki Takahata and Isao Shimoyama
Beetles have attracted attention from researchers due to their unique combination of a passively flapping forewing and an actively flapping hindwing during flight. Because the wing loads of beetles are larger than the wing loads of other insects, the mec...
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Evangelos Filippou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Athanasios Kotzakolios and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The pursuit of more efficient transport has led engineers to develop a wide variety of aircraft configurations with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and emissions. However, these innovative designs introduce significant aeroelastic couplings that can...
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Seong Hyun Hong, Young Jin Kim, Soo Hyung Park, Sung Nam Jung and Ki Ro Kim
The air and structural loads of a 5-ton class light helicopter (LH) rotor in a 2.24 g pull-up maneuver are investigated using a coupling between the computational structural dynamics (CSD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods. The LH rotor is c...
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Faisal Mahmood, Seyed M. Hashemi and Hekmat Alighanbari
Growing concerns over the CO2 footprint due the exponential demand of the aviation industry, along with the requirements for high aerodynamic performance, cost saving, and manoeuvrability during different phases of a flight, pave the path towards adaptab...
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Johan Feldwisch and Martin Bauer
With the progress of high-performance computing, computationally expensive high-fidelity methods can be applied early in the design process of an aircraft. This enables Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the assesment of flight performance, handling ...
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Haoyuan Shao, Daochun Li, Zi Kan, Shiwei Zhao, Jinwu Xiang and Chunsheng Wang
Catapult-assisted takeoff is the initiation of flight missions for carrier-based aircrafts. Ensuring the safety of aircrafts during catapult-assisted takeoff requires a thorough analysis of their motion characteristics. In this paper, a rigid?flexible co...
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Huixue Dang, Jiang Xu, Wei Wang, Xiaochen Wang, Bin Li, Ruizhi Cao, Liuhong Kang and Zhichun Yang
Civilian aircraft can experience noticeable vibrations in the cockpit and cabin due to mechanical faults during flight. To address this issue, a hybrid approach was utilized to investigate fluid-induced vibration load characteristics in the front landing...
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