Actuation and control of wing warping via tendon-sheath mechanism for flexible membrane wing mini-UAV by Lee, Shian

“…Additionally, the FMW provides the convenience of quick deployment and storage by being foldable along the fuselage. This thesis details the research to achieve more roll control authority while preserving the adaptive washout and also foldable feature. …”
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Fatigue life monitoring program of RMAF MiG-29 / Wahyu Kuntjoro ... [et al.] by Kuntjoro, Wahyu, Bahari, Ibrahim, Ujang, Abdul Ghani, M Mydin, Assanah

“…The fatigue life of RMAF MiG-29 is based on the wing-fuselage lug joint structure, and Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) approach is adopted. …”
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Alternative numerical validation methodology for short-term development projects by Hassan, Mohamed P., Mahmud, Abdullah Saad, Mohd Rafie, Azmin Shakrine, Zahari, Rizal

“…Aerodynamic loads are acquired from simulating the Gulfstream IV-SP forward fuselage during climbing, cruising and landing. Mechanical loads are acquired from estimating structural weight and impact load during landing. …”
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Low velocity impact analysis of glass/kenaf hybrid composites for aerospace structural applications by Ismail, Muhammad Faizzuddin

“…Nonetheless, the applications of composites in aircraft’s structure is tends to develop, especially the use of hybrid composites for fuselage which has many conflicting requirements. Several issues are highlighted in this research such as the selection of natural fibre that suits the usage in aerospace structural applications and the most suitable weight percentage combinations of individual fibre in hybrid composites that approaching the original constituents. …”
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Effects of helicopter horizontal tail configurations on aerodynamic drag characteristics by Ishak, I. S., Mougamadou Zabaroulla, M. F.

“…To fulfil the objective, three of the most common helicopter horizontal tail configurations namely Forward Stabilizer, Low-aft Stabilizer and T-tail Stabilizer, were fabricated as a simplified scaled-down wind tunnel model mated with a standard ellipsoidal fuselage. The test wind speed for this experimental work was 30 m/s, determined from Reynolds sweep, which was corresponding to Reynolds number of 2.8 x 105. …”

High velocity steel spheres impact and damage analysis of graphene doped T700 composite shielding panels by Nelson Matos, Virginia Infante, Manuel Gomes, Mario Ribeiro, José Pedro Sousa, Filipe Ribeiro, Ricardo Rocha

“…Composite materials are increasingly being used in aircraft components such as fuselage panels which are subject to collision with debris during take-off/landing or in flight. …”
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Numerical Investigation of a Rectangular Jet Exhausting over a Flat Plate with Periodic Surface Deformations at the Trailing Edge by Colby Niles Horner, Adrian Sescu, Mohammed Afsar, Eric Collins

“…In an attempt to satisfy these constraints while maintaining or improving vehicle performance, engineers have been experimenting with some innovative aircraft designs which place the engines above the wings or embedded in the fuselage. In one configuration, a blended wing concept vehicle utilizes rectangular jet exhaust ports exiting from above the wing ahead of the trailing edge. …”
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Investigating the Level of Fidelity of an Actuator Line Model in Predicting Loads and Deflections of Rotating Blades under Uniform Free-Stream Flow by Nikos Spyropoulos, George Papadakis, John M. Prospathopoulos, Vasilis A. Riziotis

“…In helicopter configurations, the interaction of MR with the ground or the fuselage and the interaction of tail rotor with the duct in fenestron configurations are typical examples. …”
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Airport Spatial Usability in Measuring the Spherical Antenna Properties on Small Aircraft by Ján Labun, Pavol Kurdel, Marek Češkovič, Alexey Nekrasov, Mária Gamcová, Natália Gecejová

“…Particular attention is required to the location of these electronic devices’ antenna systems on the fuselage. A prerequisite for determining the location of the antenna and verifying its radiation is a thorough knowledge of the radio communication transmission of onboard electronic systems in cooperation with terrestrial or satellite systems. …”
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Research on the Stationarity of Hexapod Robot Posture Adjustment by Lei Zhang, Fucai Wang, Zenghui Gao, Shuangshuang Gao, Chenghang Li

“…Therefore, this study solves the problem of the instability of the fuselage when the robot changes its attitude, and it provides an important reference for the multi-footed robot to improve the terrain adaptability.…”
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Numerical analysis of aircraft flow exhaust gases to design a curved deflector for Mexico City international airport by Jorge Luis Garrido-Téllez, Eusebio Eduardo Hernandez Martinez, José Carlos Jiménez-Escalona

“…The results presented here are those from the McDonnell Douglas MD11 airplane, which is the most critical case since it has an engine in the rear part of the fuselage on the vertical empennage, and this causes the flow of exhaust gases to arrive in a direction from top to bottom on the upper part of the Aerotren, which for safety should not exceed 15.0 m/s (54 km/hr). …”
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Numerical and experimental study on temperature and springback control of U-shape titanium extrusion hot stretch bending by Baosheng Liu, Fengchao Cao, Yuansong Zeng, Wei Wu

“…Hot stretch bending (HSB) was an advanced manufacturing process for fuselage structure of aircraft. In this work, U shaped titanium extrusion hot stretch bending was investigated by applying numerical and experimental approaches. …”
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Evaluation of Incident Light Sensors on Unmanned Aircraft for Calculation of Spectral Reflectance by E. Raymond Hunt, Alan J. Stern

“…A Tetracam Miniature Multiple Camera Array (Mini-MCA) was mounted on a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with the ILS mounted on top of the aircraft’s fuselage. On two dates the aircraft flew over six 50-ha agricultural fields with center-pivot irrigation at three different altitudes (450, 650 and 1800 m above ground level (AGL)). …”
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Multidisciplinary Optimisation of Aircraft Structures with Critical Non-Regular Areas: Current Practice and Challenges by Massimo Sferza, Jelena Ninić, Dimitrios Chronopoulos, Florian Glock, Fernass Daoud

“…The design optimisation of aerostructures is largely based on Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO), which is a set of tools used by the aircraft industry to size primary structures: wings, large portions of the fuselage or even an entire aircraft. The procedure is computationally expensive, as it must account for several thousands of loadcases, multiple analyses with hundreds of thousands of degrees of freedom, thousands of design variables and millions of constraints. …”
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Comparison of In-Flight Measured and Computed Aeroelastic Damping: Modal Identification Procedures and Modeling Approaches by Roberto da Cunha Follador, Carlos Eduardo de Souza, Adolfo Gomes Marto, Roberto Gil Annes da Silva, Luis Carlos Sandoval Góes

“…The in-flight structural response has been measured by accelerometers distributed along the aircraft wings, fuselage and empennages. The Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition technique was chosen to identify the airframe dynamic parameters. …”
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Research on the Effect Characteristics of Free-Tail Layout Parameters on Tail-Sitter VTOL UAVs by Hao Qi, Shi-Jie Cao, Jia-Yue Wu, Yi-Ming Peng, Hong Nie, Xiao-Hui Wei

“…Consequently, this paper delves into the aerodynamic coupling characteristics and laws between the layout parameters such as tail number, tail length, and tail area and the tail-sitter VTOL UAV fuselage. To optimize the free-tail configuration, a multi-objective optimization is performed by integrating the overall UAV dynamics, landing dynamics, and modal transition trajectory constraints. …”
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Experimental Assessment of Hole Quality and Tool Condition in the Machining of an Aerospace Alloy by Muhammad Aamir, Aamer Sharif, Muhammad Zeeshan Zahir, Khaled Giasin, Majid Tolouei-Rad

“…This paper deals with an experimental investigation of hole quality in Al2024-T3, which is one of the aerospace alloys used in aircraft fuselage skin due to its high level of resistance to fatigue crack propagation. …”
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Study on the Energy Absorption Characteristics of Different Composite Honeycomb Sandwich Structures under Impact Energy by Bianhong Chang, Zhenning Wang, Guangjian Bi

“…A honeycomb structure is a sandwich structure widely used in fuselage, among which the hexagonal honeycomb core is the most widely used. …”
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Guided Wave Characteristic Research and Probabilistic Crack Evaluation in Complex Multi-Layer Stringer Splice Joint Structure by Jian Chen, Yusen Xu, Shenfang Yuan, Zhen Qin

“…Multi-layer and multi-rivet connection structures are critical components in the structural integrity of a commercial aircraft, in which elements like skin, splice plate, strengthen patch, and stringer are fastened together layer by layer with multiple rows of rivets for assembling the fuselage and wings. Their non-detachability and inaccessibility pose significant challenges for assessing their health states. …”
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Effect of engine failure on aerodynamic characteristics of a light transport aircraft model by Yu. S. Mikhailov

“…The aircraft is equipped with a loading ramp with a relatively short flat rotatable part of the lower fuselage surface. Experimental studies of the longitudinal and lateral characteristics of the model with installed simulators of a power plant were carried out in TsAGI low-speed wind tunnel T-102. …”
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