Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 85 Issue 3

Bonded composite repair structures multiple site damage analysis

Chi Chen, Thanh Hai Tran, Alex A. Volinsky

The purpose of this work is to describe the effects of the length of cracks and the patch size on the stress intensity factors in a bonded composite repair structure containing…

Coning algorithm based on singular perturbation

Li Fu, Lingling Wang, Jianghai Hu

The aim of this paper is to propose a new coning correction algorithm, based on the singular perturbation technique, for the attitude update computation with non‐ideal angular…

Damaged airplane flight envelope and stability evaluation

Davood Asadi, Mahdi Sabzehparvar, Heidar Ali Talebi

Understanding the performance and flight envelope of a damaged aircraft is a preliminary requirement to recover the aircraft after damage. This paper aims to provide a…

Assessment and optimization of an airplane's environmental impact

Ramesh Agarwal, Zheming Zhang

The ratio of the energy liberated during a flight to the revenue work done (ETRW) of an airplane can be employed as a key indicator to assess its environmental impact. It remains…

Effect of power on PPT discharge current

Abdolrahim Rezaeiha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of power on pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) discharge current with respect to its peak, duration, and behavior while the power…

Unobservable fuzzy Petri net diagnosis technique

Ruoming An, Wei Liang

The purpose of this paper is to resolve the problem of complex system diagnosis with unobservable events such as Hall thruster.

Attitude coordination of satellite swarms with communication delays

Haizhao Liang, Zhaowei Sun, Jianying Wang

This paper aims to investigate the fast attitude coordinated control problem for rigid satellite swarms with communication delays.

Inclusion effects of J2‐perturbed motion over Melton's problem

Ahmad Soleymani, Alireza Toloei

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the inclusion effects of the linearized time‐varying J₂‐perturbed terms for relative accuracy increase significantly over Melton's problem.