Morphing aircraft design - the design of aircraft capable of macroscale shape change for drastic in-flight performance variation - is an extremely broad and underdefined field. Two primary means of developing new concepts in morphing exist at Cornell University: design of broad test platforms with generalized motions that can provide future insight into targeted ideas, and specifically adapted aircraft and shape change mechanisms attempting to accomplish a particular task, or hybridize two existing aircraft platforms. Working with both schools of thought, Cornell research has developed a number of useful concepts that are currently under independent analysis and experimentation, including three devices capable of drastically modifying wing structure on a testbed aircraft. Additional concerns that have arisen include the desire to implement ornithological concepts such as perching and wingtip control, as well as the necessity for a compliant aerodynamic skin for producing flight-worthy structural mechanisms.


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    Title :

    Adaptive structural systems and compliant skin technology of morphing aircraft structures


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems ; 2004 ; San Diego,CA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2004-07-26





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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