Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 88 Issue 3

Editorial

Hardware-in-the-loop platform for development of redundant smart actuators

Patrick Jonathan Lauffs, Florian Holzapfel

Fault tolerant control surface actuation of unmanned aerial systems with take-off weights below 150 kg offers new design challenges due to limitations in mass, weight and cost…

Heliport network planning through OR methods and use of GIS

Luigi Maritano, Salvatore Amoroso, Francesco Castelluccio

The purpose of the study is to modify the plan of a network of heliport for HEMS, civil protection and transport proposed by the regional government through the combined use of…

The assessment of geometric accuracy of aircraft engine blades with the use of an optical coordinate scanner

Pawel Rokicki, Grzegorz Budzik, Krzysztof Kubiak, Tomasz Dziubek, Malgorzata Zaborniak, Bogdan Kozik, Jacek Bernaczek, Lukasz Przeszlowski, Andrzej Nowotnik

The purpose of this paper is to present coordinate measuring system possibilities in the meaning of the geometric accuracy assessment of hot zone elements in aircraft engines. The…

Parametric analysis of a fluttering piezoelectric wing

Claudia Bruni, Enrico Cestino, Giacomo Frulla

The purpose of the research activity is to identify the best configuration of piezoelectric (PZT) elements for a typical condition of wing aeroelastic instability. The attention…

Investigation of ignition temperature, time to ignition and chip morphology after the high-speed dry milling of magnesium alloys

Jozef Kuczmaszewski, Ireneusz Zagórski, Anna Dziubinska

The purpose of this paper is to determine time-to-ignition of magnesium alloy chips and the ignition-preceding stages as well as to examine chip morphology. The tests were…

Manufacturing of aircraft engine transmission gear with SLS (DMLS) method

Pawel Rokicki, Bogdan Kozik, Grzegorz Budzik, Tomasz Dziubek, Jacek Bernaczek, Lukasz Przeszlowski, Olimpia Markowska, Bartlomiej Sobolewski, Arkadiusz Rzucidlo

The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology for manufacturing of aircraft transmission gears using incremental method of rapid prototyping (RP) – direct metal laser…

Comparison of quasi static indentation and dynamic loads of glass and carbon fibre aluminium laminates

Patryk Adam Jakubczak, Jaroslaw Bienias

The purpose of this paper was to compare the response of selected hybrid Fibre Metal Laminates (FMLs) in the form of glass and carbon fibre aluminium laminates to dynamic and…

A review on aircraft joints design

Carlos Eduardo Chaves, Fernando Ferreira Fernandez

The purpose of this paper is to present a review about sizing of joints, from the static and fatigue points of view. A discussion about advantages and disadvantages of each…

Control computers diagnostics for UAV flight control system

Grzegorz Kopecki

The purpose of this paper is to present the topic of control computers diagnostics. They are part of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control system implemented in a modified…

Arrival time optimization at hubs of network airlines

Reinhard Lernbeiss

The purpose of this study is to investigate the prospects and feasibility of optimizing the speed of an arriving aircraft flying into a hub of a network airline to prevent…

The green trajectory of an aircraft aided during take-off by ground-based system using magnetic levitation technology

Andrzej Robert Majka

The purpose of the paper is to determine the optimal conditions of the take-off and the optimal trajectory of the initial climb minimizing the fuel consumption of the aircraft…

Damage detection in aerostructures from strain measurements

Julián Sierra-Pérez, Alfredo Güemes

The purpose of this paper is to study techniques of pattern recognition in the strain field as structural health monitoring tools. The changes in the strain field may be very…

A new technology for producing AZ31 magnesium alloy aircraft brackets with a triangular outline

Anna Dziubinska, Andrzej Gontarz

This paper aims at working out an innovative technology of aircraft brackets with a rib of a triangular outline manufacturing from magnesium alloy AZ31 based on forging process.

Mission concept selection for an asteroid mining mission

Alena Probst, Graciela González Peytaví, Bernd Eissfeller, Roger Förstner

The paper aims to introduce a trade-off method for selecting a mission concept for an asteroid mining mission. In particular, the method is applied to the KaNaRiA mission concept…