25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-10.6.3

INTEGRATED DESIGN OF SMART COMPOSITES APPLIED TO SMART WINGLETS

B. Nagel, H. P. Monner, E. Breitbach
DLR, Germany

Keywords: Smart Tailoring, Smart Structures, Aeroelastic Tailoring, Multi Disciplinary Optimization

The combination of Smart Structures and Aeroelastic Tailoring offers the potential to achieve light weight structures exploiting the anisotropic properties of composite materials and providing flexible shape control in the same time. This concept is called Smart Tailoring and was applied to the design of Smart Winglets.

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