Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 92 Issue 3
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Composite technology development based on helicopter rotor blades
Konrad Jerzy KozaczukThis paper aims to document the approach, effort and cost of advance composite technology implementation suited for small and medium enterprises on the example of composite main…
Operations reliability study of small aircraft powered by piston engines
Pawel Jan Glowacki, Leszek Loroch, Wlodzimierz BalickiEurope has adopted Flight Path 2050 (FP 2050) challenge with an objective of 90 per cent of the travelers being able to reach door-to-door European destinations within 4 hours by…
Jet engine degradation prognostic using artificial neural networks
Maria Grazia De Giorgi, Antonio Ficarella, Laura De CarloThe purpose of this paper is to propose and develop artificially intelligent methodologies to discover degradation trends through the detection of engine’s status. The objective…
Structural model with controls of a very light airplane for numerical flutter calculations
Robert Rogólski, Aleksander OlejnikThe finite element model developed for a new-designed aircraft was used to solve some problems of structural dynamics. The key purpose of the task was to estimate the critical…
Design and analysis of a feedback loop to regulate the basic parameters of the unmanned aircraft
Marcin Chodnicki, Katarzyna Bartnik, Miroslaw Nowakowski, Grzegorz KowaleczkoThe motivation to perform research on feedback control system for unmanned aerial vehicles, a fact that each quadrocopter is unstable.
Remarks about factors shaping the heliosphere
Romana Ratkiewicz, Wojciech Konior, Jan KotlarzThe purpose of the paper is to give a brief description of the new topic introduced for the first time at the EASN Conferences.
Aerodynamics analysis of rotor’s impact on the aircraft in the tandem wing configuration
Marcin FigatThis paper aims to present the results of aerodynamic calculation of the aircraft in tandem wing configuration called VTOL. A presented vehicle combines the capabilities of the…
Novel coupled model for power loss prediction in a record-breaking electric aircraft motor
Robert GorajThe purpose of this paper is to devise an analytical approach to calculate conductor winding losses, considering multiple contributing aspects simultaneously. These include the…
Fibre Bragg grating sensor applications for structural health monitoring
Cansu Karatas, Boray Degerliyurt, Yavuz Yaman, Melin SahinStructural health monitoring (SHM) has become an attractive subject in aerospace engineering field considering the opportunity to avoid catastrophic failures by detecting damage…
Visual and microscopic examination of the rocket engine combustion chamber
Adam Wisniewski, Maciej Malicki, Wojciech ManajThis paper aims to enhance the selection of the best material of the rocket engine combustion chamber. The chamber has been destroyed during dynamometer tests, and the goal of…
Experimental investigation of plasma vortex generator in flow control
Alireza Ghayour, Mahmoud ManiThe purpose of this paper is to compare the effects of two different configurations of plasma streamwise vortex generators (PSVG), including comb-type and mesh-type in controlling…
Interstellar medium magnetic field in bow shock modelling
Jan Kotlarz, Romana Ratkiewicz, Wojciech KoniorThis paper aims to demonstrate the impact of interstellar (IS) magnetic field on stellar shocks existence, shape and size in the stellar wind (SW) vs interstellar medium (ISM…
Piston-electric propulsion system as reliable alternative for classic and nonconventional piston engine configurations
Bartosz DziugielThe purpose of this paper is to define reliability requirements to be imposed on electric engines to assure similar or higher value of mean time between failures (MTBF) for mixed…
Variance constrained trajectory tracking for tandem-rotor helicopters
Firat SalThis paper aims to present novel results for trajectory tracking of tandem-rotor helicopters via variance-constrained controllers.
A new optimization model for design of traditional cockpit interfaces
Mehmet Burak ŞenolReal flight is cognitively demanding; accordingly, both indicators and display panel layout should be user-friendly to improve pilot-aircraft interaction. Poor pilot-interface…
The simulation of single wraparound fin on a semi-cylindrical missile body
Nayhel Sharma, Rakesh KumarThe purpose of this paper is to establish a freestream computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a three-dimensional non-spinning semi-cylindrical missile model with a single…
Magnetometer-based autonomous orbit determination via a measurement differencing extended Kalman filter during geomagnetic storms
Feng Cui, Dong Gao, Jianhua ZhengThe main reason for the low accuracy of magnetometer-based autonomous orbit determination is the coarse accuracy of the geomagnetic field model. Furthermore, the geomagnetic field…
Spectral finite element method for wave propagation analysis in smart composite beams containing delamination
Namita NandaThe purpose of the study is to present a frequency domain spectral finite element model (SFEM) based on fast Fourier transform (FFT) for wave propagation analysis of smart…
Spinning gasodynamic projectile system identification experiment design
Piotr Lichota, Mariusz Jacewicz, Joanna SzulczykThe purpose of this paper is to present the methodology that was used to design a system identification experiment of a generic spinning gasodynamic projectile. For this object…
Effects of flow control in the presence of asymmetric inflows in twin air-intake
Yadav Krishna Kumar Rajnath, Akshoy Ranjan Paul, Anuj JainThe purpose of air-intake duct used in combat aircrafts is to decelerate the inlet flow and concurrently raise the static pressure recovery at the compressor inlet. Because of…
Buckling of fiber metal laminated plates – numerical and experimental studies
Elluri Venkata Prasad, Shishir Kumar SahuThe purpose of this study is to study the buckling behavior of new aircraft material, i.e. glass fiber metal laminated (GFML) plates.
Challenges in implementing a wireless avionics network
Peter Reji Ramanatt, K. Natarajan, K.R. ShobhaAircraft manufacturers for a long time have been looking to reduce the weight of on board equipment to enhance performance both from commercial aspect and from military aspect…
Modelling of fuel flow-rate of commercial aircraft for the climbing flight using cuckoo search algorithm
Ridvan Oruc, Tolga BaklaciogluThe purpose of this study is to create a new fuel flow rate model adopting cuckoo search algorithm (CSA) for the climbing phase of the flight.
Nonlinear aeroelastic modeling of aircraft using support vector machine method
Seyed Amin BagherzadehThis paper aims to propose a nonlinear model for aeroelastic aircraft that can predict the flight parameters throughout the investigated flight envelopes.
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- Prof Phil Webb