Adaptive structural systems and compliant skin technology of morphing aircraft structures

Justin Manzo; Ephrahim Garcia; Adam M. Wickenheiser; Garnett C. Horner

doi:10.1117/12.540348

26 July 2004 Adaptive structural systems and compliant skin technology of morphing aircraft structures

Justin Manzo, Ephrahim Garcia, Adam M. Wickenheiser, Garnett C. Horner

Proceedings Volume 5390, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540348
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2004, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

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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Justin Manzo, Ephrahim Garcia, Adam M. Wickenheiser, and Garnett C. Horner "Adaptive structural systems and compliant skin technology of morphing aircraft structures", Proc. SPIE 5390, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, (26 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540348

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