A system for varying a camber of an airfoil may include an airfoil having an upper surface and a lower surface meeting to form a leading edge and a trailing edge, the lower surface having a first actuator including shape memory alloy sheet, a controller including a plurality of heating elements attached to the shape memory alloy sheet for selectively heating the sheet to a temperature above ambient to deform the upper and lower surfaces to morph a geometry of a camber of the airfoil thereby, a computer control connected to selectively control individual activation of the heating elements to heat the shape memory alloy sheet to a selected temperature to effect a selected deflection, and a cooling device to allow ambient air to enter the wing and exit over the actuator to resume a non-morphed state.
Variable camber airfoil system
2015-09-29
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
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