26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS2008-7.3 ST2:

INNOVATIVE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES FOR SMALL AIRCRAFT

T. Urik, M. Malis
Brno Univ. of Technology, Czech Republic

Keywords: sandwich structure, geodesic structure, multi – web structure, FRP

Paper is devoted to new innovative composite structures suitable mainly for small aircraft categories. Particularly three kinds of non-traditional composite structures are presented and confronted with broadly used sandwich structures. They are multi – web and geodesic structures and structures with corrugated webs. Preliminary design is made by finite elements methods.

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