Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 95 Issue 8

Porosity-dependent impact study of a plate with Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundations reinforced with agglomerated CNTs

Mehdi Ranjbar-Roeintan

The purpose of this article is to investigate the porosity-dependent impact study of a plate with Winkler–Pasternak elastic foundations reinforced with agglomerated carbon…

Influence of laser scanning power on microstructure and tribological behavior of NI-composite claddings fabricated on TC4 titanium alloy

Md. Helal Miah, Dharmahinder Singh Chand, Gurmail Singh Malhi, Shahrukh Khan

The demand for titanium alloys has received massive attention in the aerospace and automotive industry owing to their magnificent electrochemically compatibility and corrosion…

Learning radar cross section of an intermeshing-rotor helicopter with blade pitch

Zeyang Zhou, Jun Huang

This study aims to study the radar cross-section (RCS) of an intermeshing rotor with blade pitch.

Risk assessment method for controlled flight into terrain of airlines based on QAR data

Chaochao Guo, Youchao Sun, Siyu Su, Chong Peng

The purpose of this paper is to assess the risk of controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) for airlines and to develop a practical method for evaluating and predicting CFIT risk to…

Investigation of microstructure of fretting wear behavior in 6061-T6 aluminum alloy

Veysel Erturun, Durmuş Odabaş

The purpose of this study is to investigate the microstructure of fretting wear behavior in 6061-T6 aluminum alloy. The fretting wear of blind riveted lap joints of 6061-T6…

Stability analysis for scheduled air traffic flow

Yun-Xiang Han

Modeling and system performance analysis play an important role in the planning of air traffic system. In particular, this paper aims to concentrate on the modeling and the…

Three-dimensional temperature distribution of aircraft tyre tread at touchdown

Yu Li, Weiji Wang

The aircraft’s tyres are forced to spin up at touchdown. A considerable amount of frictional energy will be converted into heat, raising the tread temperature and leading to…

A satellite component contour extraction method for lightweight space mobile platforms

Qianlong Li, Zhanxia Zhu, Junwu Liang

Owing to the complex space environment and limited computing resources, traditional and deep learning-based methods cannot complete the task of satellite component contour…

Investigation of slanted perforation diameter in tabs for supersonic jet control

Ezhilmaran G., Sekar S., Sathish Kumar K., Thanigaiarasu S.

This study aims to investigate the effect of slanted perforation diameter in tabs for the control of Mach 1.4 underexpanded supersonic jet flow characteristics.

An optimization approach to financial and operational viabilities of spare aircraft

Massoud Bazargan, Ilkay Orhan

The airlines cancel their flights frequently because of factors that they do not have any control over. Spare aircraft can potentially address some of the issues caused by…

Automatic carrier landing for UAV based on integrated disturbance observer and fault-tolerant control

Yixuan Xue, Ziyang Zhen, Zhibing Zhang, Teng Cao, Tiancai Wan

Accurate glide path tracking is vital to the automatic carrier landing task of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The purpose of this paper is to develop a reliable flight controller…

Forest fire detection in aerial vehicle videos using a deep ensemble neural network model

Nurcan Sarikaya Basturk

The purpose of this paper is to present a deep ensemble neural network model for the detection of forest fires in aerial vehicle videos.

Conceptual design of a new experimental setup to simulate aircraft tyre spin-up dynamics

Saeed Mahjouri, Rasoul Shabani, Martin Skote

The first touchdown moment of aircraft tyres on a runway is the critical phase where maximum of the vertical and horizontal ground loads is produced. Some valuable drop tests have…

Unstable tilt-rotor maximum likelihood wavelet-based identification from flight test data

Piotr Lichota

The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology that was used to perform system identification of a dynamically unstable tilt-rotor from flight test data. The method…

A comparative analysis of dry sliding wear characterization of textile wastes (cotton/jute fabrics) reinforced nano fly ash filled epoxy based hybrid composites

Baldev Singh Rana, Gian Bhushan, Pankaj Chandna

The purpose of current study deals with the development and wear testing of jute and cotton fiber reinforced with nano fly ash-based epoxy composites. Performance of waste cotton…

The impacts of the wind on GPS of quadrotors

Hamdi Ercan, Hamdi Ulucan

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is crucial for determining the positions of quadrotors, enabling safe flight and maintaining stability against environmental conditions. This…

A framework proposition to identify astronaut value through the space station dynamic value stream mapping (SSDVSM)

Hongying Shan, Mengyao Qin, Libin Zhang, Zunyan Meng, Peiyang Peng, Xinze Shan

The work efficiency and energy consumption of astronauts in the space station are the key issues in the operation of the space station, and how to evaluate the lean value of their…

A comparison analysis on forward error correction technology: a future perspective for GNSS

Ahmet Esat Süzer, Hakan Oktal

The main aim of this study is to elaborately examine the error correction technology for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) navigation messages and to draw a conceptual…

Improved geometric accuracy in single-point incremental forming of aerospace superalloy 625 using Taguchi desirability function analysis

Pawan Bishnoi, Pankaj Chandna

This present research aims to identify the optimum process parameters for enhancing geometric accuracy in single-point incremental forming of aviation-grade superalloy 625.