Composite chiral structures for morphing airfoils: Numerical analyses and development of a manufacturing process

By P. Bettini, A. Airoldi, G. Sala, L. Landro, Massimo Ruzzene, A. Spadoni. 2010

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Homogenization of periodic hexa- and tetrachiral cellular solids (2014, background): “…to the chiral topologies, the study of the mechanical behavior of hexachiral structures started from the seminal paper by Prall and Lakes, 1997, and was later developed to include the analysis of damage processes (see Bettini et al., 2010) and of free wave propagation (Spadoni et al., 2009).”
• Mechanical metamaterials associated with stiffness, rigidity and compressibility: a brief review (2017, unknown): “5); (iii) NPR using chiral building blocks, chiral [30,142,150,153] or anti-chiral lattices [141,329,350] (Section 5.”
• In plane stiffness of multifunctional hierarchical honeycombs with negative Poisson’s ratio sub-structures (2013, background): “Besides, numerical and experimental simulations showed that chiral honeycombs have attractive dynamic properties when used as the core of airfoils [38–40].”
• Elasticity of anti-tetrachiral anisotropic lattices (2013, methodology): “Auxetic cellular structures have also been used to prototype morphing wings (Bettini et al., 2010; Martin et al., 2008; Spadoni et al., 2006), radomes (Scarpa et al., 2003), adaptive and deployable structures (Hassan et al., 2008).”
• A Gradient Cellular Core for Aeroengine Fan Blades Based on Auxetic Configurations (2011, background): “…one can mention the chiral (or non-centresymmetric ones) (Prall and Lakes, 1996; Spadoni and Ruzzene, 2007; Martin et al., 2008; Abramovitch et al., 2010; Alderson et al., 2010; Bettini et al., 2010; Lorato et al., 2010; Miller et al., 2010; Tee et al., 2010) and star-shaped (Grima et al., 2005).”
• In-plane elasticity of a novel auxetic honeycomb design (2017, methodology): “Auxetic honeycombs have been employed to prototype radomes [33], adaptive and deployable structures [34], and morphing wings [35-37].”