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Author:

Howard, Anna Kathleen Tyler

Title:

The Aeromechanical Stability of Soft-Inplane Tiltrotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

full-span
whirl flutter
semi-span
civil tiltrotor
aeromechanical stability
rotorcraft
helicopter
pitch-lag coupling
ground resonance
pitch-flap coupling
air resonance
aeroelastic couplings
stability
tiltrotor

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Austruy, Julien

Title:

ROTOR HUB VIBRATION AND BLADE LOADS REDUCTION, AND ENERGY HARVESTING VIA EMBEDDED RADIAL OSCILLATOR

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

vibration control
rotorcraft
energy harvesting

File:

Download Dissertation_JulienAustruy_Dec2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Farhan Gandhi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

Author:

Montanye, Pamela L.

Title:

Shipboard Helicopter Gust Response Alleviation Using Active Trailing Edge Flaps

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

helicopter
rotorcraft
trailing edge flap
active rotor
flight dynamics
gust
gust response
shipboard
dynamic interface

File:

Download PamMontanyeMSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guo, Wei

Title:

Flight Control Design for Rotorcraft with Variable Rotor Speed

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

rotorcraft
flight control
variable rotor speed
rotor state feedback

File:

Download Dissertation_WeiGuo.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Long, Justin Allan

Title:

Nonlinear Active Vibration Based Damage Detection and Localization

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear
vibration
damage
detection
structural
health
monitoring
automation
airframe
rotorcraft
localization

File:

Download JustinLong_MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Clarke Conlon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Costa, Guillermo Jorge

Title:

Design, Fabrication, Test, and Evaluation of Small-scale Tiltrotor Whirl Flutter Wind Tunnel Models

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tiltrotor
rotorcraft
aeroelasticity
wind tunnel testing
whirl flutter

File:

Download Costa_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor