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Shape Memory Alloy Engineering introduces materials, mechanical, and aerospace engineers to shape memory alloys (SMAs), providing a unique perspective that combines fundamental theory with new approaches to design and modeling of actual SMAs as compact and inexpensive actuators for use in aerospace and other applications. With this book readers will gain an understanding of the intrinsic properties of SMAs and their characteristic state diagrams, allowing them to design innovative compact actuation systems for applications from aerospace and aeronautics to ships, cars, and trucks. The book rea

Alloys --- Production engineering. --- Shape memory alloys. --- Elastic properties. --- Smart materials --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Metallic alloys --- Metallic composites --- Metals --- Phase rule and equilibrium --- Amalgamation --- Microalloying

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Airplanes --- Vertically rising aircraft. --- Wings. --- Vertical rising aircraft --- Vertical take-off and landing aircraft --- VTOL aircraft --- Ground-effect machines --- Short take-off and landing aircraft --- Wings (Airplanes) --- Airframes --- Oscillating wings (Aerodynamics)

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Morphing Wings Technologies: Large Commercial Aircraft and Civil Helicopters offers a fresh look at current research on morphing aircraft, including industry design, real manufactured prototypes and certification. This is an invaluable reference for students in the aeronautics and aerospace fields who need an introduction to the morphing discipline, as well as senior professionals seeking exposure to morphing potentialities. Practical applications of morphing devices are presented-from the challenge of conceptual design incorporating both structural and aerodynamic studies, to the most promising and potentially flyable solutions aimed at improving the performance of commercial aircraft and UAVs. Morphing aircraft are multi-role aircraft that change their external shape substantially to adapt to a changing mission environment during flight. The book consists of eight sections as well as an appendix which contains both updates on main systems evolution (skin, structure, actuator, sensor, and control systems) and a survey on the most significant achievements of integrated systems for large commercial aircraft.