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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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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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Raquel Alonso Castilla, Florent Lutz, Joël Jézégou and Emmanuel Bénard
In the context of reducing the environmental footprint of tomorrow?s aviation, Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP) has become an increasingly interesting concept. With the strong coupling between disciplines that this technology brings forth, multiple ...
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Weiji Wang, Wei Qian, Xinyu Ai and Yuguang Bai
The aerodynamic configuration of large swept-back tri-wings is generally adopted for hypersonic vehicles, but the structural stiffness of the ailerons is weak, which may lead to damage due to the flutter behavior. In the initial stage of structural desig...
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Johnson O. Imumbhon, Mohammad D. Alam and Yiding Cao
In the design stage of an aircraft, structural analyses are commonly employed to test the integrity of the aircraft components to demonstrate the capability of the structural elements to withstand what they are designed for, as well as predict potential ...
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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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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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Francesco Rea, Francesco Amoroso, Rosario Pecora and Frederic Moens
Modern transport aircraft wings have reached near-peak levels of energy-efficiency and there is still margin for further relevant improvements. A promising strategy for improving aircraft efficiency is to change the shape of the aircraft wing in flight i...
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Francesco Rea, Francesco Amoroso, Rosario Pecora and Frederic Moens
Modern transport aircraft wings have reached near-peak levels of energy-efficiency and there is still margin for further relevant improvements. A promising strategy for improving aircraft efficiency is to change the shape of the aircraft wing in flight i...
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Faisal Mahmood, Seyed M. Hashemi and Hekmat Alighanbari
Detrimental environmental impacts due to the increasing demands of the aviation industry have gained tremendous global attention. With a potential fuel saving, along with high aerodynamic performance and maneuverability during different phases of a fligh...
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Dioser Santos, Jeremy Rogers, Armando De Rezende and Victor Maldonado
The performance of a small reconfigurable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is evaluated, combining a multidisciplinary approach in the computational analysis of additive manufactured structures, fluid dynamics, and experiments. Reconfigurable UAVs promise c...
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Pavel Hospodár, Jan Klesa, Daniel Demovic and Nikola ?i?kovský
In this paper, an aerodynamic and structural computation framework was produced to develop a more efficient aircraft configuration considering a wing with a distributed electric propulsion and its use in different flight missions. For that reason, a mode...
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Bashir Alsaidi, Woong Yeol Joe and Muhammad Akbar
Conventional fixed wing aircraft require a selection of certain thickness of skin material that guarantees structural strength for aerodynamic loadings in various flight modes. However, skin structures of morphing wings are expected to be flexible as wel...
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Francesco Toffol and Sergio Ricci
This paper presents a preliminary study on the improvement of the fuel efficiency of a civil transport aircraft, focusing on the aero-elastic optimization of an increased aspect ratio wingbox. The wing is stretched, increasing its aspect ratio, and a tra...
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Zhao Yang and Jie Li
Aeroelastic deformation of the high-aspect-ratio wing from a solar-powered UAV will definitely lead to the difference of its performance between design and actual flight. In the present study, the numerical fluid?structural coupling analysis of a wing wi...
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Ilias Lappas and Akira Ikenaga
An increasing number of aircraft is equipped with wing tip devices, which either are installed by the aircraft manufacturer at the production line or are retrofitted after the delivery of the aircraft to its operator. The installation of wing tip devices...
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Pezhman Mardanpour and Siavash Rastkar
The aeroelastic behavior of high-aspect-ratio very flexible flying wing is highly affected by the geometric nonlinearities of the aircraft structure. This paper reviews the findings on how these nonlinearities influence the structural and flight dynamics...
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Pezhman Mardanpour and Siavash Rastkar
The aeroelastic behavior of high-aspect-ratio very flexible flying wing is highly affected by the geometric nonlinearities of the aircraft structure. This paper reviews the findings on how these nonlinearities influence the structural and flight dynamics...
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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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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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