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A Vision for Shape-Adaptive Aircraft

On January 16, 2018 · In Aerospace Engineering, Aircraft, Bio-mimicry, Composite Materials, Nonlinear Structures, Novel Materials/Tailored Structures, Shape Adaptation

Over the last couple of months, a number of readers of the blog and listeners of the podcast have asked me about my research. Although there is a brief overview on the Contact page, the information there probably leaves too many things unsaid to form a clear picture […]

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Podcast Ep. #2 – Prof. Paul Weaver on Shape, Stiffness and Smart Aerospace Structures

On November 6, 2017 · In Aerospace Engineering, Aircraft, Composite Materials, Composites, Helicopters

“There’s been a lot of good press from the science community on self-assembly of atoms. Well, I guess what I’m looking for is self-assembly and disassembly of large-scale structures…There is all sorts of exciting things we can do when [engineering] structures re-configure themselves.” — Prof. Paul Weaver

This episode features Prof. Paul Weaver, who […]

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Bio-mimetic Drag Reduction – Part 3: Morphing

On April 5, 2012 · In Aerodynamics, Bio-mimicry

In the previous two posts of this blog series I introduced the different sensing mechanism that aquatic animals possess to create spatial images of the largely turbulent flow fields around them. Flow sensing has been shown to […]

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