INTEGRAL BLADE DESIGN The approach used to design the active rotor blade was to select an existing rotor blade design as a ... The baseline model blade is Mach scaled from the Boeing CH - 47D with a geometric scaling of 1 : 5.939 ...
Exploiting the properties of piezoelectric materials to minimize vibration in rotor-blade actuators, this book demonstrates the potential of smart helicopter rotors to achieve the smoothness of ride associated with jet-engined, fixed-wing ...
Wind turbine blade design and fabrication Modern wind turbine blades are created with a combination of computer design tools ... blades utilized to generate electric power are manufactured from composite materials such as carbon fiber.
AGARD Index of Publications
Applied Mechanics Reviews
Selected from a US Army Research Office Workshop, this collection of papers describes applications in electrorheological fluids, sensor/actuator films, self-adaptive structures, and shape-memory materials. Smart materials, a new class of...
Designers in Action, 1985-1991: Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering Design