The symmetric flutter and response characteristics of a class of tailless .sailplanes-:are investigated combining rigid--body dynamics with elastic modes of deformation. The methods used are based on the normal mode approach ...

A simplified panel model is described, together with a number of assumptions about the mode of its bucking. The approach to the calculation of the buckling stress is by splitting the panel into a number of flat plates and ...

Effects of various wing-body interaction design parameter variations on the structural behaviour of a small RPV have been investigated using the finite element method on an adhoc basis rather than a classical analytic ...