Aircraft wings bend while in flight. To see this for yourself, all you have to do is look out of the window during a flight. Beyond a certain limit, these wing deflections become known as Large Deformations. Professor Wolf Krüger of the DLR Institute of Aeroelasticity explains whether these deformations are dangerous, the conditions in which they occur and why modern wings are becoming increasingly elastic.


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    Title :

    Bending instead of snapping


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    DLR magazine ; 166 ; 38-41


    Publication date :

    2020-12-01


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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