• Incorporating safety in early (airframe) systems design and assessment 

  Jimeno, Sergio; Molina-Cristobal, Arturo; Riaz, Atif; Guenov, Marin (AIAA, 2019-01-14)

  Presented is a novel framework for incorporating safety analysis in early systems architecture design.Traditionally, a systems architecture is first defined by the architects and then passed to safety experts, who manually ...
• Minimum-effort waypoint-following guidance 

  He, Shaoming; Lee, Changhun; Shin, Hyo-sang; Tsourdos, Antonios (AIAA, 2019-01-30)

  This paper addresses the problem of minimum-effortwaypoint-following guidance with/without arrival angle constraints of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. By utilizing a linearized kinematics model, the proposed guidance laws ...
• Nonlinear magnetic-coupled flutter-based aeroelastic energy harvester: modeling, simulation and experimental verification 

  Li, Kui; Yang, Zhichun; Gu, Yingsong; He, Shun; Zhou, Shengxi (Kui Li, Zhichun Yang, Yingsong Gu, et al., Nonlinear magnetic-coupled flutter-based aeroelastic energy harvester: modeling, simulation and experimental verification. Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2018, Article number 051020, 2018-11-29)

  Aeroelastic energy harvesting can be used to power wireless sensors embedded into bridges, ducts, high-altitude buildings, etc. One challenging issue is that the wind speed in some application environments is low, which ...
• A cost estimation approach for IoT modular architectures implementation in legacy systems 

  Tedeschi, Stefano; Emmanouilidis, Christos; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Rodriques, Duarte polonia; Roy, Rajkumar; Starr, Andrew (Elsevier, 2018-02-08)

  Industry 4.0 has encouraged manufacturing organisations to update their systems and processes by implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technology in legacy systems to provide new services such as autonomous condition ...
• A study of an aero-elastic twisted inverted wing in close ground proximity 

  Barzic, Jean-Baptiste; Garry, Kevin; Prince, Simon (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2019-01-06)

  Aero-elastic deformation of an inverted wing in close ground proximity can have an effect on the aerodynamic loads experienced and the downstream trajectory of the primary tip vortex. These differences have practical ...
• Size estimation tools for conventional actuator system prototyping in aerospace 

  Dussart, Gaétan; Lone, Mudassir; O'Rourke, Ciaran (American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2019-01-06)

  Predicting the size of an actuator capable of reaching given performance requirements isa critical step for any systems design. Thus, to help in the prototyping and early developmentstages of such devices, simple mathematical ...
• A critical study on impact damage simulation of IM7/8552 composite laminate plate 

  Cui, Hao; Thomson, Daniel; Eskandari, Sina; Petrinic, Nik (Elsevier, 2019-01-25)

  Plate impact tests on IM7/8552 composite laminates with different projectile 10 incident angles and velocities were carried out. Numerical simulations were conducted to 11 predict the impact damage, with both Puck and LaRC ...
• Non-elliptic lift distribution wings to decrease vertical tailplane size in commercial aircraft 

  Carrizales Rodriguez, Martin Alejandro; Bragado Aldana, Estela; Lone, Mudassir M. (AIAA, 2019-01-07)

  Aircraft performance can be assessed and improved by considering the key variables linked toweight and aerodynamics in the Breguet range equation. In this paper, the authors present a methodfor wing design that allows a ...
• On the impact of global interactions on the structure of metallic glasses 

  Stiehler, Martin E.; Jolly, Mark R.; Georgarakis, Konstantinos (Elsevier, 2018-12-12)

  The influence of global interactions between the static atomic structure and the valence electrons on structure formation in binary Al-(Ni,Cu,Zr), Zr-(Ni,Cu) and ternary Al-(Ni,Cu)-Zr metallic glasses is investigated over ...
• Distractor-aware deep regression for visual tracking 

  Du, Ming; Ding, Yang; Meng, Xiuyun; Wei, Hua-Liang; Zhao, Yifan (MDPI, 2019-01-18)

  In recent years, regression trackers have drawn increasing attention in the visual-object tracking community due to their favorable performance and easy implementation. The tracker algorithms directly learn mapping from ...
• In-flight folding wingtip system: inspiration from the XB-70 Valkyrie 

  Dussart, Gaétan X.; Lone, Mudassir M.; O’Rourke, Ciaran; Wilson, Thomas (AIAA, 2019-01-06)

  Wingtip folding can be used to extend aircraft wingspan, allowing designers to take advantage of reduced induced drag whilst respecting ground operational limitations. Such devices can also be used in-flight for a variety ...
• Analysis of wake surfing benefits using a fast unsteady vortex lattice method 

  Fleischmann, Dominique; Lone, Mudassir (AIAA, 2019-01-08)

  The computer simulation framework Flexit is used to analyse the fuel economy benefit of aircraft wake surfing. Wake surfing involves multiple aircraft flying in close formation during cruise conditions to reduce overall ...
• Autonomous inspection and repair of aircraft composite structures 

  Kostopoulos, V.; Psarras, S.; Loutas, T.; Sotiriadis, G.; Gray, Iain; Padiyar, Janardhan; Petrunin, Ivan; Raposo Gaudencio Campos, Joao; Zanotti Fragonara, Luca; Tzitzilonis, V.; Dassios, K.; Exarchos, D.; Andrikopoulos, G; Nikolakopoulos, G. (Elsevier, 2018-11-23)

  This paper deals with the development of an innovative approach for inspection and repair of damage in aeronautical composites that took place in the first two years of the H2020 CompInnova project which. The aim is a newly ...
• Establishing a framework to explore the Servicer-Client relationship in On-Orbit Servicing 

  Matos de Carvalho, Tiago Henrique; Kingston, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2018-10-26)

  On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) is becoming more extensively discussed in research and commercial developments. The key point of servicing relies on the relation between two systems, the Servicer executing the tasks and the Client ...
• The application of reasoning to aerospace Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM): Challenges and opportunities 

  Ezhilarasu, Cordelia Mattuvarkuzhali; Skaf, Zakwan; Jennions, Ian K. (Elsevier, 2019-01-11)

  This paper aims to discuss the importance and the necessity of reasoning applications in the field of Aerospace Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM). A fully functional IVHM system is required to optimize Condition ...
• The impact of heat exchanger degradation on the performance of a humid air turbine system for power generation 

  Orts-Gonzalez, Pau Lluis; Zachos, Pavlos K.; Brighenti, Giovanni D. (Elsevier, 2018-12-13)

  This paper aims to analyse the impact of air-water heat exchanger’s degradation on the performance of a reheated humid air turbine system for power generation applications. A number of thermal models to simulate the ...
• Modelling the influence of laser drilled recast layer thickness on the fatigue performance of CMSX-4 

  Morar, Nicolau; Roy, Rajkumar; Gray, Simon; Nicholls, John; Mehnen, Jörn (Elsevier, 2018-11-02)

  This paper introduces a novel approach to fatigue life prediction modelling considering the laser drilling effect on film cooling holes of turbine vanes. The methodology proposed is based on a stress-life model such as the ...
• Data mining and knowledge reuse for the initial systems design and manufacturing: Aero-engine service risk drivers 

  Morar, Nicolau; Rajkumar, Roy; Mehnen, Jorn; Redding, Louis; Harrison, Andrew (Elsevier, 2013-09-27)

  Service providers of civil aero engines are typically confronted with a high cost of maintenance, replacement and refurbishment of the service damaged components. In such context, service experience becomes a key issue for ...
• The effect of trepanning speed of laser drilled acute angled cooling holes on the high temperature low cycle corrosion fatigue performance of CMSX-4 at 850 °C 

  Morar, Nicolau; Roy, Rajkumar; Mehnen, Jorn; Nicholls, John; Gray, Simon (Elsevier, 2017-05-04)

  The effect of laser trepanning speed and, as a result, recast layer thickness on the high temperature corrosion fatigue behaviour of CMSX-4 superalloy acute angled holes was investigated. The experimental test results show ...
• Bus drivers who leave: were they more crash-involved? 

  af Wåhlberg, Anders E.; Dorn, Lisa (Elsevier, 2018-12-06)

  Turnover is usually considered to be a safety problem for companies, but can also be an advantage, if those who leave are less safe than those who stay. This problem has rarely been investigated for bus drivers, where the ...

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