In the present era, the demand for self-powered electronic instruments is increasing and their energy consumption is decreasing. The ability to extract energy from the operating …
In the last few decades, piezoelectric (PZT) materials have played a vital role in the aerospace industry because of their energy harvesting capability. PZT energy harvesters …
Abstract Aeroelastic Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations have traditionally been associated to a high computational cost, making them prohibitive in a initial phase of the …
Aeroelastic systems are at risk of flutter instabilities which can lead to structural failure. Recently, an innovative design of nonlinear energy sink (NES) has been introduced to …
Ensuring adequate flutter margins is a critical step in aircraft design. However, in the presence of nonlinear effects, subcritical limit-cycle oscillations can arise even before flutter …
AJ Torregrosa, A Gil, P Quintero, A Cremades - Journal of Wind …, 2022 - Elsevier
Decarbonization requirements have extended the use of wind turbines by orders of magnitude. Due to their high stiffness-to-weight ratio, composite materials have been widely …
Nonlinear stability analysis plays a key role in the design and evaluation of dynamical systems. Model-based analysis methods require extensive calibration and computational …
E Basta, M Ghommem, S Emam - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
In this work, we demonstrate the application of the conserved-mass metamaterial concept to control the flutter onset in aircraft wings and mitigate their induced vibrations. The numerical …
This study presents a brief account of the seminal works on aeroelastic tailoring for aerospace applications. Tailoring using advanced composites is a revolutionary process in …