High aspect ratio flexible wing aircraft present very complex and coupled structural and flight
dynamics. This research describes a bottom-to-top validation process for this type of wing …

This paper presents the development of a code, called GEBTAero, dedicated to very flexible
aircraft (VFA) aeroelasticity and especially the evaluation of aeroelastic tailoring effect on …

The full-wing solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) adopts a large aspect ratio
wing, a lightweight structural design, and a differential throttle control scheme to maximize …

Multibody system simulation has been widely used to model and analyze complicated
dynamical systems. Many recent multibody system packages can simulate rigid and flexible …

First step of aircraft design is calculation of initial parameters, based on assumptions
determining flight parameters which designed aircraft should meet. During these …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a mathematical model of one very flexible
transport category airplane whose structural dynamics was modeled with the strain-based …

The article discusses how to leverage generative design to optimize the aircraft structures
and various aircraft performance estimation techniques available today. Both of these are …

The design of solar HALE drones remains a major challenge for aircraft designers because
of their design features of large span wings, necessarily very flexible, which are sensitive to …

In this paper, the sensitivity of nonlinear dynamic aeroelastic loads of very flexible airframes
to variations in multiple aircraft conceptual design parameters is investigated. It is found that …

Flexible structures are increasingly prevalent in the commercial aviation industry, and the
use of highly flexible structures is a prominent trend for the future. When analyzing those …