SMA-Based System for Environmental Sensors Released from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Pellone, Lorenzo; Ameduri, Salvatore; Favaloro, Nunzia; Concilio, Antonio

doi:10.3390/aerospace4010004

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“…Such devices are finding more and more applications in several market sectors, including the automotive, heavy industry, as well as nuclear power plants. In the aeronautical field, some applications may be found on small UAV [ 34 , 35 ]. Recently, Boeing has installed an SMA torque tube within aircraft flight test hardware [ 36 ], while NASA tested SMA-actuated foldable wings in flight [ 37 ].…”

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Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing

Giuliani¹,

Dimino

Ameduri

et al. 2022

Biomimetics

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In a previous paper, the authors dealt with the current showstoppers that inhibit commercial applicability of morphing systems. In this work, the authors express a critical vision of the current status of the proposed architectures and the needs that should be accomplished to make them viable for installation onboard of commercial aircraft. The distinction is essential because military and civil issues and necessities are very different, and both the solutions and difficulties to be overcome are widely diverse. Yet, still remaining in the civil segment, there can be other differences, depending on the size of the aircraft, from large jets to commuters or general aviation, which are classifiable in tourism, acrobatic, ultralight, and so on, each with their own peculiarities. Therefore, the paper aims to trace a common technology denominator, if possible, and envisage a future perspective of actual applications.

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Section: Perspectivesmentioning

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Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing

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Dimino

Ameduri

et al. 2022

Biomimetics

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“…Such devices are finding more and more applications in several market sectors, including automotive, heavy industry and nuclear power plants. In the aeronautical field, some applications may be found on small UAV [28]- [29]. Recently, Boeing has installed an SMA torque tube within aircraft flight test hardware [30], while NASA tested in flight SMA-actuated foldable wings, [31].…”

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Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing

Giuliani¹,

Dimino²,

Ameduri³

et al. 2021

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In a previous paper, the authors dealt with the current showstoppers for morphing systems and with the reasons that have inhibited their commercial applicability. In this work, the authors ex-press a critical vision of the current status of the proposed architectures and the needs that should be accomplished to make them viable for installation onboard of commercial aircraft. The distinc-tion is essential because military and civil issues and necessities are very different, and both the solutions and difficulties to be overcome are widely diverse. Yet, still remaining in the civil seg-ment, there can be other differences, depending on the size of the aircraft, from large jets to com-muters or general aviation, in turn classifiable in tourism, acrobatic, ultralight and so on, each with their own peculiarities. Therefore, the paper wants to try to trace a common technology de-nominator, if possible, and envisage a future perspective of actual applications.

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“…The damping coefficient, f.i., arrives at the 25% of its initial value after a few hundreds of cycles. However, the already mentioned compactness and high-energy density encourage the adoption of these materials for adaptive applications, ranging from morphing wings themselves, [61][62][63] to deployable antennas 64 and stowable systems 65 and landing gears. 67 Table 1.…”

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Morphing wings review: aims, challenges, and current open issues of a technology

Ameduri

Concilio

2020

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C:

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The scope of this work is to provide a critical review on the expectations about the morphing wing technology against the current open issues and showstoppers. In synergy to other emerging and promising technologies, morphing is asked for bridging the evident gap between the current growth trend of the aerospace compartment and its impact onto the environment. The potential of morphing, in particular, its primary impact on the aerodynamic efficiency of the aircraft, primed the investigation of different technologies, achieving interesting results but often highlighting limitations and showstoppers against the airworthiness regulations. The authors focus their attention on some specific aspects that characterize the morphing wing attachments and that may represent weakness points for the maturation of the technology: the load transmission of the movable parts to the supporting wing box, the way the flexibility–rigidity paradox is addressed by specific critical components (the skin), the scalability dependence of the morphing architectures, and the specific aeroelastic behavior of the nonconventional architectures.

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SMA-Based System for Environmental Sensors Released from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing

Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing

Status and Perspectives of Commercial Aircraft Morphing

Morphing wings review: aims, challenges, and current open issues of a technology

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