Free Vibration Analysis of Tapered Composite Wings

To prevent catastrophic oscillatory failures in aircraft wings, a vibration analysis is imperative. A specific Circumferentially Asymmetric Stiffness Configuration is implemented and fully described in http://www.aeroway.ca/Taperedwing.htm

A new Dynamic Finite Element (DFE) formulation is developed to calculate the natural frequencies and modes of wings composed of advanced super light composite materials. This enhanced method provides highly accurate solutions compared to classical Finite Elements.

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Can You Treat Composite Beams or Wings Mathematically like Isotropic Wings?

Finding the effective rigidities of an advanced composite wing can simplify the analysis considerably. The application of fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aerospace industry extends from commercial to military aircraft, such as the Boeing F18, B2 Stealth Bomber, AV-8B Harrier (Jones, 1998 and http://www.compositecalculator.com). The attractiveness of composites lies in their mechanical properties; such as weight, strength, stiffness, corrosion resistance, fatigue life. Composites are widely used for control surfaces such as ailerons, flaps, stabilizers, rudders, as well as rotary and fixed wings. That is why the analysis of composite structures is imperative for aerospace industry. The main advantage of composites is their flexibility in design. Mechanical properties of the laminate can be altered simply by changing the stacking sequence, fibre lay-up and thickness of each ply which leads to optimization in a design process.

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Russian Rocket Engine – Best in the World

United States consider Russian rocket engine RD-180 to be the best rocket engine on the world, claim RosCosmos officials.

RD-180 is a two-chamber variant of four-chamber kerosene engine RD-170. The engine owes better specific characteristics, than American analogues have, to closed circuit with reburning of exhaust generator gas in main combustion chambers.

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NASA’s FERMI, Space, and Time

Is it impossible to pin down both where and when an event takes place, due to quantum gravity effects?

Shahn Majid explains why this may be.

In my recent posts I have emphasized ideas on the cutting edge of fundamental science which have testable predictions or other contact with experiment, rather than being merely fashionable. Now, up until recently it was widely assumed that ideas for the ‘Mount Everest’ challenge of quantum gravity, as Martin Rees puts it in his review of the multi-authored book On Space and Time, could never be tested experimentally.

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