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Evangelos Filippou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Athanasios Kotzakolios and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The pursuit of more efficient transport has led engineers to develop a wide variety of aircraft configurations with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and emissions. However, these innovative designs introduce significant aeroelastic couplings that can...
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Oscar D. Hurtado, Albert R. Ortiz, Daniel Gomez and Rodrigo Astroza
Simplifications and theoretical assumptions are usually incorporated into the numerical modeling of structures. However, these assumptions may reduce the accuracy of the simulation results. This problem has led to the development of model-updating techni...
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Francesco Toffol and Sergio Ricci
This paper presents the design of an innovative wingtip device actively actuated to control the aeroelastic loads, with a focus on the gust load alleviation. It summarizes the work carried out in the Clean Sky 2 AIRGREEN2 project, where the device was de...
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Ahmed Malim, Nikolaos Mourousias, Benoît G. Marinus and Tim De Troyer
This paper presents an original approach to the structural design and analysis of a 3D-printed thermoplastic-core propeller blade for high-altitude UAVs. A macroscale linear isotropic numerical model for the behavior of 3D-printed parts (in Tough PLA, as...
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Konstantin Bantscheff and Christian Breitsamter
Considering aeroelastic effects plays a vital role in the aircraft design process. The construction of elastic wind tunnel models is a critical element in the investigation of occurring aeroelastic phenomena. However, the structural scaling between full-...
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Feng Zhang, Hao Tang, Nyatchouba Nsangue Bruno Thierry, Wei Liu, Qiuyang Sun, Meixi Zhu, Can Zhang, Xuhao Guo, Chenxu Shan, Liuxiong Xu and Fuxiang Hu
Codends are the posterior components of trawl nets that collect the catch and play a crucial role in the selectivity process. Due to the accumulation of catch and the variety of catch types, the quality of catch and trawl selectivity can be negatively im...
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Arkadiusz Bednarz, Krzysztof Bieniek, Radoslaw Kolodziejczyk, Zygmunt Szczerba, Piotr Krauz, Monika Lubas and Kamil Szczerba
This article presents an experimental approach to fatigue testing of cableway gondolas, carried out in accordance with the EN 13796-3 standard. Due to the limitations of the aforementioned regulations and the lack of clarity in their content, when design...
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Miles Schelling, Kavita Patil and Thomas B. Boving
This study demonstrates that an induced bank filter (IBF) system can treat raw water polluted with Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. Similar to riverbank filtration (RBF), induced or reversed bank filtration relies on natural processes to clean water,...
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Hyun-Ung Bae, Kyoung-Ju Kim, Sang-Yun Park, Jeong-Jin Han, Jong-Chan Park and Nam-Hyoung Lim
In order to reduce the large damage caused by train derailment, protective facilities of various shapes and conditions can be installed on railroad tracks. These protective facilities are referred to as derailment containment provisions (DCPs) and three ...
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Marco Furinghetti, Igor Lanese and Alberto Pavese
In this research work the outcomes of a hybrid experimental campaign are analyzed, in order to evaluate the influence of aftershock events on the frictional response of sliding-based isolation devices for buildings. To achieve this, a hybrid testing fram...
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