Project Updates / News / Events

In this page is presented the information concerning the latest news about the CHANGE project and related issues.

NEWS

Project partners are planning to participate in the following forthcoming conferences:

• AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2016, San Diego, California, USA, 4-8 January, 2016. https://www.aiaa-scitech.org/

EVENTS

Project partners participated in the following conferences:

• 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 08-11 April 2013.

•         4th International Conference on Integrity, Reliability and Failure (IRF'2013), Funchal, Portugal, 23-27 June 2013.

•          AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 19-22 August 2013.

•          7th Ankara International Aerospace Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 11-13 September 2013.

•          3rd International EASN Association Workshop on Aerostructures, Milano, Italy, 09-11 October 2013.

•          AIAA, Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, 13-17 January 2014.

•    DeMEASS VI, Design, Modelling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Systems, Ede, The Netherlands, 25-28 May 2014.

• 25th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST 2014), The Hague, The Netherlands, 6-8 October 2014.

•       ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Next Generation Aircraft Technologies, Montreal, Canada,14-20 November 2014.

•     ICAA 2015, XIII International Conference on Aeronautics and Astronautics, Lisbon, Portugal, 16-17 April 2015.

•       16th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, 22-26 June 2015.

• AIAA Flight Testing Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, 22-26 June 2015.

• SMART2015, 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, Portugal, 03-06 June 2015.

WORKSHOPS

Project partners organised and participated in the following Workshops as Dissemination Activities within the CHANGE project:

• Workshop on Morphing Airfoils for UAVs (Structure)

Monday, 13th October 2014 @ DLR, Braunschweig, Germany.

13:00 Wind Tunnel Experiment of a Droop Nose (Markus Kintscher, DLR, Braunschweig)
13:20 Morphing Leading Edge with Compliant Mechanism (Martin Radestock, DLR, Braunschweig)
13:40 Design and Realization of a Compliant Adaptable Wing (Giulio Molinari, ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland)
14:30 Morphing Wing with Pneumatic Actuation (Benjamin Gramüller, DLR, Braunschweig)
14:50 Span Extension with Telescopic Wing (Pedro Gamboa, UBI, Covilhã, Portugal)
15:10 Compliant Morphing Aircraft Structures Research at Swansea University (Benjamin Woods, SU, Swansea, UK)
15:30 Warp induced Morphing leading and Trailing Edge (Noud Werter, TUD, Delft, Netherlands)
16:20 Structural and Aerodynamic Performance of a Morphing Hybrid Trailing Edge Concept with Compliant Skin (Melin Sahin, METU, Ankara, Turkey)
16:40 NOVEMOR Droop-Nose Adaptive Morphing Wingtip: A Design Synopsis (Srinivas Vasista, DLR, Braunschweig)
17:00 Droopnose Design using Aluminium Skin (LeaTop) (Noud Werter and Roeland de Breuker, TUD, Delft, Netherlands)

• Workshop on Skins for Morphing Structures (Material)

Tuesday 14th October 2014 @ DLR, Braunschweig, Germany.

09:30 EPDM based Skins for Morphing (Alexander Falken, INVENT, Braunschweig)
09:50 Design Considerations for Morphing Skins (Edward Bubert, SU, Swansea, UK)
10:10 Molecular Modelling of Polymers for the Morphing Skin (Michail Papanikolaou, D. Drikakis, CU, Cranfield, UK)
11:00 Design and development of composite morphing skins (Noud Werter and Roeland de Breuker, TUD, Delft, Netherlands)
11:20 Morphing Materials considering airworthiness (Sebastian Geier, DLR, Braunschweig)

• Workshop on Morphing Airfoils for UAVs (Aerodynamics)

Friday 27th March 2015 @ Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

10:30 Aerospace at Cranfield, Building the Momentum (Iain Gray, CU, Cranfield, UK )
11:30 CFD capabilities of the Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science centre (Dimitris Drikakis, CU, Cranfield, UK)
12:00 Telescopic wing design and performance (Pedro Gamboa, UBI, Covilhã, Portugal)
12:30 Aerodynamic variable-fidelity modelling (Marco Hahn, ARA, Bedford, UK)
14:30 Analysis of propeller-airframe interaction effects through a combined numerical simulation and wind-tunnel testing approach (Angel Gomariz-Sancha, ARA, Bedford, UK)
15:00 Multi-fidelity, multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization framework for aerial vehicle design (Andrea Ciarella, ARA, Bedford, UK)
15:40 Numerical simulation of wing vortex generators (Andrew Peace, ARA, Bedford, UK)
16:15 Aerodynamic Analysis in Structural Design Process of a Morphing UAV (Serkan Ozgen, METU, Ankara, Turkey)