Overview of the DARPA Smart Wing Project

By J. Kudva. 2004

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A review of shape memory alloy research, applications and opportunities (2014, background): “In the 1990s, aerospace researchers focussed on active and adaptive structures toward morphing capability and system-level optimisation under various flight conditions, such as in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program for aircraft ‘smart wings’ [232], the Smart Aircraft and M”
Wing morphing control with shape memory alloy actuators (2013, methodology): “Shape memory alloy (SMA) linear actuators were used to control the flexible trailing edge by attaching them to the top and bottom of the trailing edge spar in an antagonistic way (Kudva, 2004).”
Skin design studies for variable camber morphing airfoils (2008, methodology): “Under the DARPA/AFRL/NASA Smart Wing Program, a team led by Northrop-Grumman Corporation used smart materials based technologies to produce smoothly varying leading- and trailing-edge camber in place of standard hinged control surfaces, for improved performance of military aircraft.”
Use of a Ni60Ti shape memory alloy for active jet engine chevron application: I. Thermomechanical characterization (2009, background): “The DARPA ‘Smart Wing’ project [10, 11] examined the use of shape memory alloys and other active materials to warp and deform aircraft wings from within.”
Composite corrugated structures for morphing wing skin applications (2010, background): “…Morphing Project (Florance et al 2003, Bartley-Cho et al 2004, Kudva 2004), DARPA’s Smart Wing programme (Florance et al 2003, Bartley-Cho et al 2004, Kudva 2004) and Morphing Aircraft Structures programme (Love et al 2004, Bowman et al 2007, Bye and McClure 2007, Love et al 2007) developed and…”
Flexible Skins for Morphing Aircraft Using Cellular Honeycomb Cores (2010, methodology): “These include the Mission Adaptive Wing Program (Hall, 1989), the Active Aeroelastic Wing Program (Pendleton et al., 2000), the Smart Wing Program (Kudva, 2004; Bartley-Cho et al., 2004), and most recently, the Morphing Aircraft Structures Program (Andersen et al., 2007; Bowman et al., 2007; Love…”
Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation (2003, background): “…material systems: » the seismic protection of cultural heritage structures [1] » harvesting energy from structural vibration [2] » morphing aircraft [3] » lightweight actuators for aerospace applications such as adaptive optics [4] » noise and vibration cancellation [5] » precision positioning for…”
Aerospace applications of shape memory alloys (2007, methodology): “The Smart Wing program was intended to develop and demonstrate the use of active materials, including SMAs, to optimize performance of lifting bodies [21–24].”
Smart Material Systems (2005, unknown): “[3] L.”
Constitutive modeling and structural analysis considering simultaneous phase transformation and plastic yield in shape memory alloys (2009, background): “torsional [7] or bending [8, 9] components, some exploiting”
Morphing aircraft based on smart materials and structures: A state-of-the-art review (2016, background): “Martin CA, Kudva J, Austin F, et al. (1998) Smart materials and structures—smart wing, vols I, II, III and IV.”