The impact of unstable supercooled water droplets suspended in the cloud on the solid will
cause its surface to freeze, and the flight safety of the aircraft will be seriously affected when …

This paper focuses on resonant ice protection systems and proposes key performance
indicators to analyze the performances of such systems with respect to levels of energy …

Piezoelectric resonant de-icing systems are attracting great interest. This paper aims to
assess the implementation of these systems at the aircraft level. The article begins with the …

A four-year project investigating the use of piezoelectric actuators as a vibration-based low
power de-icing system has been initiated at the Anti-Icing Materials Laboratory. The work …

Ice properties are hard to define and vary significantly in literature. While some of this
variation can be attributed to different testing methods, the authors believe that most of this …

This paper aims at defining key mechanical properties of atmospheric ice in order to improve
the design of mechanical de-icing systems. Based on ice fracture mechanisms, the …

Mechanical and electro-mechanical de-icing systems are low-energy ice protection
solutions based on fracture mechanisms. It can, however, be difficult to obtain the protection …

The microstrip patch antenna (MPA) with frequency stability versus temperature is proposed
as the ice sensor for de-icing of aerodynamic systems. The operation principle is based on …

Ice accretion on rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (RWUAVs) needs to be studied
separately from the fixed-wing UAVs because of the additional flow complexities induced by …

The objective of this research project is divided in four parts:(1) to design a piezoelectric
actuator based de-icing system integrated to a flat plate experimental setup, develop a …