Sunday, February 5, 2012

Wing deflection

Today I found a journal article that describes the structural aspects of wing design. This article was especially detailed about the designs of commercial jet wings, but the most interesting I got from the research was information about a specific wing model, F11, and information about its structure and degree of wing deflection.

Here is the online version of the journal article:
http://www.dlr.de/fa/Portaldata/17/Resources/dokumente/publikationen/2003/01_anhalt.pdf

A separate source I discovered dealt with aspects of wing design also. I got information dealing with wing weight and span influence. As an interesting little fact, the wing box makes up most of the weight of the wing (that probably means it is a big factor in wing design). The weight of the wing is influenced by its thickness, in which the goal of engineering the wing is to decrease it and make sure the wing is consistent in thickness, at least for the wing box.

Here is the website:
http://aero-comlab.stanford.edu/Papers/stanford-aa294.pdf

1 comment:

  1. Mr. Skinner's comment: (1) it appears that you're getting into some relatively sophisticated mathematics and (2) you'll probably need to find a way to narrow the scope of your ISP.

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