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    Shape sensitivity analysis of flutter response of a laminated wing

    Kapania, Rakesh K. / Bergen, Frederick D'oench, Jr. / Barthelemy, Jean-Francois M. | NTRS | 1991
    Keywords: Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance

    Computation of actuation power requirements for smart wings with morphing airfoils

    Gern, Frank H. / Inman, Daniel J. / Kapania, Rakesh K. | Tema Archive | 2005
    New generations of highly manoeuverable aircraft, uninhabited combat air vehicles or micro air vehicles, are likely to feature very ...

    Analysis of a Thin-walled Beam with a Crack of Random Location and Size

    Kunaporn, Chalitphan / Singh, Mahendra P. / Patil, Mayuresh J. et al. | AIAA | 2012
    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Wings

    Global/Local Optimization of Aircraft Wing Using Parallel Processing

    Liu, Qiang / Jrad, Mohamed / Mulani, Sameer B. et al. | AIAA | 2016

    The structural optimization of a cantilever aircraft wing with stiffeners and curvilinear spars and ribs is described. The decomposition

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    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Wings

    Vibration Analysis of Curvilinearly Stiffened Composite Panel Subjected to In-Plane Loads

    Zhao, Wei / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2016

    This paper presents an efficient finite element approach to study the prestressed vibration mode results of a curvilinearly stiffened

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    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Configurations , Aircraft Wings

    Rapid Transonic Flutter Analysis for Aircraft Conceptual Design Applications

    Mallik, Wrik / Schetz, Joseph A. / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2018
    Approximate Indicial Aerodynamic Functions for Two-Dimensional Subsonic Flow,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 25, No. 10, 1988, pp. 914 ...
    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Conceptual Design

    Bilevel Programming Weight Minimization of Composite Flying-Wing Aircraft with Curvilinear Spars and Ribs

    Zhao, Wei / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2019

    This paper studies weight minimization of a composite flying-wing aircraft using bioinspired arbitrarily shaped spars and ribs, known as

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    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Model Aircraft , Aircraft Design

    Controllability Gramian as Control Design Objective in Aircraft Structural Design Optimization

    Gupta, Rikin / Zhao, Wei / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2020
    integrating a control objective into an aircraft design optimization at the conceptual design stage by proposing the use of the eigenvalues of the ...
    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Design

    Nonintrusive Computation of Rigid-Body/Flexible-Body Coupling Integrals

    Gupta, Rikin / Love, Nathan J. / Kapania, Rakesh K. et al. | AIAA | 2020
    integrals were calculated for two flexible unmanned-aerial–vehicle-type aircraft: mAEWing1 and mAEWing2. The results help in determination of the ...
    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Failure of Hexagonal and Triangular Honeycomb Core Sandwich Panels

    Shah, Udit B. / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2020
    in aircraft and spacecraft development due to its direct impact on payload capacity and operational costs. Typically, hexagonal honeycombs ...
    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Skin-Stringer Assembly Using Radial Basis Functions for Curvilinearly Stiffened Panels

    Zhao, Wei / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2020
    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Wings

    Comparative Study of Skin–Stringer Connection Approaches for Stiffened Structures with Curvilinear Stiffeners

    Zhao, Wei / Seo, Junhyeon / Kapania, Rakesh K. | AIAA | 2023

    Additive manufacturing enables the deposition of material in the near-net shape at any desired location on the base plate or shell to

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    Publisher: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Keywords: Aircraft Components and Structure