Morphing Aircraft Systems: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
| Autor: | Terrence A. Weisshaar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Shape change business.industry ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Aerospace Engineering ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Flight control surfaces GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS Variety (cybernetics) Term (time) Morphing Range (aeronautics) Systems engineering business Adaptation (computer science) Simulation ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Aircraft. 50:337-353 |
| ISSN: | 1533-3868 0021-8669 |
| DOI: | 10.2514/1.c031456 |
| Popis: | The term ‘morphing aircraft’ describes a broad range of air vehicles and vehicle components that adapt to planned and unplanned multipoint mission requirements. Adaptation or morphing requires changing system features including vehicle ‘states,’ such as vehicle shape, during in-flight operation. The term morphing can be applied to almost any activity in which in-flight vehicle features are changed. As such, morphing has become a buzzword loosely applied to a wide variety of activities, some of which are disconnected from air vehicle morphing development. This has led to three myths: 1) morphing shape change is too expensive, 2) morphing aircraft must weigh more than nonmorphing aircraft, and 3) morphing requires exotic materials and complex systems. This paper attempts to dispel these myths by reviewing early morphing aircraft history to identify inventions and innovations that led to both successes and failures. The review also discusses recent government-sponsored activities in the United States: in par... |
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