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Assessment of certain merits of FSW and effect of the sign of the sweep angle on the stressing of a wing structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. Souahi
A. Souahi*
Affiliation:
Department of Aircraft Design, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Bedford
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Forward Swept Wings have a number of advantages over Aft Swept Wings which have been appreciated for a number of years. In the past, however, their use has been restricted to limited degrees of sweep because of the severe weight penalty necessary to prevent aerolastic divergence. Recently, it has been shown that the outstanding directional properties of fibrous composites could help overcome this problem by adequate selection of ply orientations and laminate thickness distribution of the wing skin.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 87 , Issue 869 , November 1983 , pp. 348 - 351
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1983 

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