Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 95 Issue 7

The mechanical effect of functionalization in laminated composite material

Goksel Saracoglu, Ferhat Ceritbinmez, Vildan Özkan, Ahmet Yapici

This study aims to systematically compare the effect of increasing fiber–matrix interface adhesion and matrix toughness in layered composite materials.

Robust backstepping control for maneuver aircraft based on event-triggered mechanism and nonlinear disturbance observer

Yaohua Shen, Mou Chen

This study aims to achieve the post-stall pitching maneuver (PSPM) and decrease the deflection frequency of aircraft actuators controlled by the robust backstepping method based…

The effects of dihedral angle on hover rigidity and planar maneuvers in rotary-wing UAVs

Erol Kayatas, Murat Celik

Any consensus about the effects of dihedral angle on hover rigidity of rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (RW-UAVs) does not exist in the literature. There are researchers who…

Compressive sensing-based de-aliasing method for array electrostatic signal

Zhirong Zhong, Heng Jiang, Jiachen Guo, Hongfu Zuo

The aero-engine array electrostatic monitoring technology (AEMT) can provide more and more accurate information about the direct product of the fault, and it is a novel condition…

An algorithmic application with flexible airspace approach

Ahmet Kökhan, Serhan Kökhan, Meriç Gökdalay

The purpose of this study is to develop an operational level decision support system model for air traffic controllers (ATCos) within the framework of the Flexible Use of Airspace…

Aviation risk prediction based on Prophet–LSTM hybrid algorithm

Siyu Su, Youchao Sun, Yining Zeng, Chong Peng

The use of aviation incident data to carry out aviation risk prediction is of great significance for improving the initiative of accident prevention and reducing the occurrence of…

Simultaneous UAV having actively sweep angle morphing wing and flight control system design

Metin Uzun, Tugrul Oktay

The purpose of this paper is to improve autonomous flight performance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having actively sweep angle morphing wing using simultaneous UAV and…

An efficient method for helicopter fuselage shape optimization

Jiahao Zhu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi

This paper aims to develop a new method of fuselage drag optimization that can obtain results faster than the conventional methods based on full computational fluid dynamics (CFD…

Flow characterization of low sweep MULDICON wing at low speed

Bilal Haider, Shuhaimi Mansor, Shabudin Mat, Nazri Nasir

The flow topology for multi-disciplinary configuration (MULDICON) wing is very complicated and nonlinear at low to high angle of attack (AOA). This paper aims to provide the…

A comparison of the environmental impact of turboprop and turbofan-powered aircraft

Ugur Kilic

This study aims to examine turboprop- and turbofan-powered aircraft, with the same seating capacity flying on the same route and trajectory, and investigate their environmental…

Flight data-driven intelligent prediction for fuselage vibration of helicopter

Jinghui Deng, Qiyou Cheng, Xing Lu

Helicopter fuselage vibration prediction is important to keep a safety and comfortable flight process. The helicopter vibration mechanism model is difficult to meet of demand for…

Investigation on fin cooling for lithium-polymer batteries

Onur Yasar, Selcuk Ekici, Enver Yalcin, Tahir Hikmet Karakoç

Lithium-polymer batteries have common usage in aviation industry especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Overheating is a serious problem in lithium-polymer batteries. Various…

Elliptical one-side composite bonded repair analysis through a differential evolution algorithm

Isaías Chamorro-Cruz, Rebeca López-Santiago, Valentin Vázquez-Castillo, Hilario Hernández-Moreno, Manuel Alejandro Beltrán-Zúñiga, Jorge Luis González-Velázquez, Diego Israel Rivas-López

The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal shape of a one-sided elliptical composite material patch of an adhesively bonded repair of cracked metal plates under biaxial…

Remotely sensed normalized difference red-edge index for rangeland biomass estimation

Alireza Sharifi, Shilan Felegari

The purpose of this study is rangeland biomass estimation and its spatial–temporal dynamics. Remote sensing has been a significant method for estimating biomass in recent years…

Production and characterization of GNPs-reinforced Al-based composite material by mechanical alloying

Göksel Behret, Oguzhan Sahin, Veysel Erturun

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of graphene nanoplates (GNPs), and alloying time on aluminum matrix composite. After mixing the powdered materials in the…

Universal verification methodology-based airborne electronic hardware certification approach for ARINC-429

Ibrahim Ayaz, Ufuk Sakarya, Ibrahim Hokelek

The purpose of this paper is to present a verification methodology for custom micro coded components designed for Avionics projects. Every electronic hardware which will be…