04.2 - Aerostructures Design, Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity
MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A MORPHING AILERON FOR A HYBRID ELECTRIC REGIONAL AIRCRAFT
A. De Gaspari¹, V. Cavalieri¹, M. Corti¹, S. Ricci¹; ¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy
This paper presents the design optimization of a morphing aileron demonstrating that these types of devices can exploit their multiple design degrees of freedom to simultaneously achieve several design objectives. The developed morphing aileron has proven to provide better performance than its traditional hinged counterpart both from the aerodynamic point of view and the required actuation force.