Morphing flight control surface for advanced flight performance

Matt Detrick; Seung-Keon Kwak; Hwan-Sik Yoon

doi:10.1117/12.658793

5 April 2006 Morphing flight control surface for advanced flight performance

Matt Detrick, Seung-Keon Kwak, Hwan-Sik Yoon

Proceedings Volume 6173, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems; 61730A (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658793
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A novel Morphing Flight Control Surface (MFCS) system has been developed. The distinction of this research effort is that the SenAnTech team has incorporated our innovative Highly Deformable Mechanism (HDM) into our MFCS. The feasibility of this novel technology for deformable wing structures, such as airfoil shaping, warping or twisting with a flexure-based high displacement PZT actuator has been demonstrated via computational simulations such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). CFD was implemented to verify the accuracy of the complex potential flow theory for this application. Then, complex potential flow theory, kinematics, geometry, and static force analysis were incorporated into a multidisciplinary GUI simulation tool. This tool has been used to aid the design of the MFCS. The results show that we can achieve up to five degrees of wing twisting with our proposed system, while using minimal volume within the wing and adding little weight.

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Matt Detrick, Seung-Keon Kwak, and Hwan-Sik Yoon "Morphing flight control surface for advanced flight performance", Proc. SPIE 6173, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, 61730A (5 April 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658793

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