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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:

Hathaway, Eric L

Title:

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TECHNIQUES FOR TILTROTOR AEROELASTIC STABILITY AUGMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aeroelastic stability
whirl flutter
tiltrotor
active control
optimization

File:

Download hathaway_phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Farhan Gandhi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Samuel Craig

Title:

Design and Testing of a Small, Semi-span, Prop-rotor Model for Whirl Flutter Stability

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tiltrotor
wind tunnel
testing
whirl
flutter
stability

File:

Download SamuelJohnson-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hoover, Taylor Jacob

Title:

Tiltrotor Performance Improvements through the use of Span Extensions and Winglets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tiltrotor
aircraft design
aircraft performance

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Hoover.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark David Maughmer, 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

Author:

Kambampati, Sandilya

Title:

Optimization of Composite Tiltrotor Wings with Extensions and Winglets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

optimization
tiltrotor
winglet
whirl flutter
composite material
wing extensions
aircraft design

File:

Download Sandilya_Kambampati_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Corle, Ethan Lewis

Title:

Time-Domain Aeroelastic Stability Predictions of a Semi-Span Tiltrotor

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

tiltrotor
whirl flutter
aeroelastic
stability analysis
rotorcraft
vortex particle method
time-domain stability

File:

Download corle-dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Dr. Matthew Floros, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair