Topic: Shape Changing Aircraft, Birds and Smart Materials
Abstract:
Modern aircraft are built with specific missions in mind. For instance, passenger aircraft are designed for efficient flight while cruising and military aircraft are designed with high maneuverability in mind. This means that when passenger aircraft land and take off they are not efficient and when military aircraft cruise they are not efficient. The physics of flight dictates that one design cannot both be efficient in cruise and highly maneuverable. Hence the need for shape changing (called morphing) aircraft design. One approach to creating morphing designs is to use smart structures and materials. Another approach is to see how birds perform shape changing. This talk introduces avian inspired, smart material implemented morphing aircraft.
Biography：
Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Harm Buning Collegiate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Since 1980, he has published eight books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 410 journal papers and 674 proceedings papers, given 78 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 70 Ph.D. students, and supervised more than 75 MS degrees. He works in the areas of applying smart materials and structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Instituted for Acoustics and Vibrations, Society of Experimental Mechanics and American Academy of Mechanics. He won the ASME Adaptive Structures Award in April 2000, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award in March of 2003, he received the ASME Den Hartog Award for lifetime achievement in teaching and research in vibration, the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award in Structural Health Monitoring, and the AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Award, in 2014. He is currently Technical Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1999-present).
Time: 9:00 Am, 13th December, 2022
Tencent Meeting ID: 278-360-653
Host: Prof. Shengxi ZHOU
