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Lara-Quintanilla, A. (author)
The design of aerodynamic airfoils are optimized for certain conditions. For instance, the shape of the wings of fixed-wing aircrafts are designed and optimized for a certain flight condition (in terms of altitude, speed, aircraft weight, etc.). However, these flight conditions vary significantly during the flight. Currently, aircraft are...
doctoral thesis 2016
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Iqbal, H.M.S. (author)
With the increasing use of polymer based composite materials, there is an increasing demand of polymeric resins with high glass transition temperature, high thermal stability and excellent mechanical properties at high temperature. Polybenzimidazole (PBI) is a recently emerged high performance polymer. It has the highest glass transition...
doctoral thesis 2014
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Lara-Quintanilla, A. (author), Hulskamp, A.W. (author), Bersee, H.E.N. (author)
This paper discusses the development of a high rate shape memory alloy (SMA) driven actuator. The concept of the actuator was developed to act as aerodynamic load control surface on wind turbines. It was designed as a plate or beam-like structure with prestrained SMA wires embedded off its neutral axis. Moreover, the SMA material was embedded in...
journal article 2013
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Guerriero, G.L. (author)
Environmental regulations are driving the development of new aerospace coating systems, mainly to eliminate chromates and reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. Among the various potential options for new coating materials, liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) are attractive due to their unique combination of mechanical properties and...
doctoral thesis 2012
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