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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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Bashir Alsaidi, Woong Yeol Joe and Muhammad Akbar
Conventional or fixed wings require a certain thickness of skin material selection that guarantees structurally reliable strength under expected aerodynamic loadings. However, skin structures of morphing wings need to be flexible as well as stiff enough ...
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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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Dean Ninian and Sam M. Dakka
The design and development of morphing (shape shifting) aircraft wings?an innovative technology that has the potential to increase the aerodynamic efficiency and reduce noise signatures of aircrafts?was carried out. This research was focused on reducing ...
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Dean Ninian and Sam M. Dakka
The design and development of morphing (shape shifting) aircraft wings?an innovative technology that has the potential to increase the aerodynamic efficiency and reduce noise signatures of aircrafts?was carried out. This research was focused on reducing ...
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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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Christopher Simon Beaverstock, Benjamin King Sutton Woods, James Henry Sun-Ming Fincham and Michael Ian Friswell
Morphing technology offers a strategy to modify the wing geometry, and the wing planform and cross-sectional parameters can be optimised to the flight conditions. This paper presents an investigation into the effect of span and camber morphing on the mis...
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Liqi Zhang and Yonghui Zhao
Advanced rotational variable-swept missile wings require the ability to rapidly deploy, retract and reach the designated position. Therefore, the establishment of an effective time-varying aeroelastic model of a rotating missile wing is the prerequisite ...
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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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Muhammed S. Parancheerivilakkathil, Zawar Haider, Rafic M. Ajaj and Mohammadreza Amoozgar
This paper presents the development of a novel polymorphing wing capable of Active Span morphing And Passive Pitching (ASAPP) for small UAVs. The span of an ASAPP wing can be actively extended by up to 25% to enhance aerodynamic efficiency, whilst its pi...
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Maurizio Arena, Christof Nagel, Rosario Pecora, Oliver Schorsch, Antonio Concilio and Ignazio Dimino
Nature has many striking examples of adaptive structures: the emulation of birds? flight is the true challenge of a morphing wing. The integration of increasingly innovative technologies, such as reliable kinematic mechanisms, embedded servo-actuation an...
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Zhuoer Yao, Zi Kan and Daochun Li
The spanwise morphing wing can change its aerodynamic shape to suit its flight environment, thereby having the potential to improve the flight performance of the aircraft, especially in gusty conditions. To investigate the potential of morphing wings, th...
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Hui Yang, Songcheng Jiang, Yan Wang and Hong Xiao
A multi-dimensional morphing wing skeleton mechanism is proposed with double-sided triangular pyramid units, which can realize continuous variable span-wise bend, span-wise twist, and sweep. A lockable morphing unit is designed, and its mechanism/structu...
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Fernando Montano, Ignazio Dimino and Alberto Milazzo
Morphing structures are a relatively new aircraft technology currently being investigated for a variety of applications, from civil to military. Despite the lack of literature maturity and its complexity, morphing wings offer significant aerodynamic bene...
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Zikang Jin, Zonghan Yu, Fanshuo Meng, Wei Zhang, Jingzhi Cui, Xiaolong He, Yuedi Lei and Omer Musa
The parametric design method is widely utilized in the preliminary design stage for hypersonic vehicles; it ensures the fast iteration of configuration, generation, and optimization. This study proposes a novel parametric method for a wide-range, wing-mo...
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Sijia Jia, Zhenkai Zhang, Qi Dang, Chen Song and Chao Yang
Compared with traditional wings equipped with conventional control surfaces, variable-camber morphing wings have become a hot research topic in the field of aviation due to their ability to maintain a smooth and continuous overall shape while ensuring ex...
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Zawar Haider, Rafic M. Ajaj and Lakmal Seneviratne
This paper studies the effect of morphing rate on the aeroelasticity of a polymorphing wing capable of active span extension and passive twist/pitch. A variable domain size finite element model is developed to capture the dynamic effects due to the prese...
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Jafar S. Pilakkadan, Rafic M. Ajaj, Zawar Haider and Mohammadreza Amoozgar
This paper studies the aeroelastic behavior of a rectangular, cantilever wing equipped with the spanwise morphing trailing edge (SMTE) concept. The SMTE consists of multiple trailing edge flaps that allow controlling the spanwise camber distribution of a...
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Liang Gao, Yanhe Zhu, Yubin Liu, Junming Zhang, Benshan Liu and Jie Zhao
Morphing aircraft can alter their aerodynamic configuration to obtain multitask adaptability and improve flight performance. In this paper, we apply the variable sweep concept on a tandem-wing micro aerial vehicle (MAV) for multitask adaptability, the tw...
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Sijia Jia, Zhenkai Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Chen Song and Chao Yang
This paper introduces the realization and wind tunnel testing of a novel variable camber wing equipped with compliant morphing trailing edges. Based on the aerodynamic shape and compliant mechanisms that were optimized in advance, a wind tunnel model cal...
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