Introduction to Aeroelasticity

Auteur

James DeLaurier has worked as an aerospace engineer, consultant, and professor. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has worked at McDonnell Aircraft, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Sheldahl Company, and Battelle Memorial Institute. Until his retirement in 2006, Dr. DeLaurier was a professor of at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). His research topics have included aircraft design, lighter-than-air flight vehicles (airships and aerostats), flapping-wing aircraft, and remotely-piloted microwave-powered aircraft.

Texte du rabat

This book introduces the classical topics of aeroelasticity, beginning with elastic structural modeling and the way that wing and tail structures can diverge and deform due to aerodynamic, inertial, and control-surface deflections. It presents equation derivations in a step-by-step fashion, complemented by numerical and historical examples.

Contenu

1. Introduction. 2. Structural Aspects: Stiffness and Flexibility. 3. Divergence. 4. Control Reversal. 5. Structural Dynamics. 6. Classical Flutter. 7. Single-Degree of Freedom Flutter. Appendix A. Lumped-Parameter Coupled Bending and Twisting. Appendix B. Flutter of the Representative Section with Control Surface.