Morphing Wing Technologies

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.

"This book presents a general introduction and comprehensive Review of the stateof-the-art morphing wing technology (MWT) in sub-system and aircraft level. It is well-structured, well-written and edited with rich literature in the subject. It provides useful knowledge and a wide scope of MWT through case studies from completed research programmes. After so much research effort and achievement in this field over a couple of decades, it is really indeed the right time to produce such a book on this particular subject. Although the book is produced in a form of a compilation of technical reports and papers, some of the figures need more editing effort for satisfactory quality. Like the review of a journal paper, the comments of a negative aspect do not imply a negative feedback on the book."—The Aeronautical Journal